Deployment Diagram
This deployment diagram provides a high-level view of our microservice architecture, illustrating how different components interact with each other within the system. Our architecture is designed to support scalability, maintainability, and fault tolerance, essential for modern, distributed applications.
- The user interacts with our system through a mobile application.
- The app communicates with the system's backend services via the API Gateway.
- The API Gateway serves as the single entry point for all client requests, forwarding them to the appropriate services.
- It manages client authentication, request routing, and load balancing.
- Ensures security and consistent API access for mobile and potentially other client applications.
Each microservice has a distinct responsibility and operates independently, allowing us to scale and maintain them separately. Here’s a brief description of each service:
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QRCode Service: Generates and manages QR codes used for resource sharing between users.
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Notification Service: Handles sending notifications, such as SMS, or push notifications, to users based on various triggers.
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Analytics Service: Collects and analyzes data from user performance using interactions and events to better fit the user in their social environment.
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Auth Service: Manages user authentication, ensuring secure access to the system.
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Location Service: Provides location-based services, such as event or player geolocation features.
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Discovery Service: Manages the registration and discovery of other microservices within the system, allowing them to locate and communicate with each other dynamically.
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Email Service: Manages all email communications, including welcome emails, alerts, and event reminders.
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Permission Service: Controls access and permissions for various parts of the system, ensuring users can only access authorized data or features.
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Game Service: Manages game-related logic, rules, and data for various sports and events.
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Messaging Service: Enables communication between users, such as chat features or message notifications.
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Event Service: Manages events, including event creation, updates, and deletion by users or organizers.
- Responsible for storing and managing files and media uploaded by users, such as event photos or profile pictures.
- Manages user data, including profiles, preferences, and user-specific settings.
- Kubernetes: All microservices and the API Gateway are deployed and orchestrated using Kubernetes, providing scalability, automated deployment, and management of containerized applications.
- Kafka: Used as the event streaming platform for asynchronous communication between microservices, ensuring efficient data flow and event-driven processing within the system.
- Linux Server: Hosts the Kubernetes cluster and provides a secure, stable environment for deploying services.
- Storage and User Service connect to external databases or file storage solutions as required.
- Scalability: Each service can be scaled independently based on demand, managed by Kubernetes.
- Maintainability: Microservices allow for easier updates and deployment without affecting the whole system.
- Resilience: Kafka enables asynchronous communication, and Kubernetes ensures container orchestration, making the architecture resilient and fault-tolerant.
This architecture allows us to build a flexible and robust platform that can evolve over time as new features are added and user demand increases.
This document complements the deployment diagram, providing a textual overview of each component's role and how they contribute to the system’s functionality.