business

Business: Microservices Gateway

Architecture Diagram


              %% Autogenerated business-microservices
graph TD
  classDef standard fill:#1e293b,stroke:#38bdf8,stroke-width:1px,color:#e5e7eb;
  classDef c-actor fill:#1e293b,stroke:#e5e7eb,stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 5 5,color:#e5e7eb;
  classDef c-compute fill:#422006,stroke:#fb923c,stroke-width:1px,color:#fed7aa;
  classDef c-database fill:#064e3b,stroke:#34d399,stroke-width:1px,color:#d1fae5;
  classDef c-network fill:#2e1065,stroke:#a855f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#f3e8ff;
  classDef c-storage fill:#450a0a,stroke:#f87171,stroke-width:1px,color:#fee2e2;
  classDef c-security fill:#450a0a,stroke:#f87171,stroke-width:1px,color:#fee2e2;
  classDef c-gateway fill:#2e1065,stroke:#a855f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#f3e8ff;
  classDef c-container fill:#422006,stroke:#facc15,stroke-width:1px,color:#fef9c3;

  subgraph cluster ["CLUSTER"]
    direction TB
    gateway(("<b>API Gateway</b><br/><i>gateway</i>"))
    class gateway c-network
    svc_a("<b>Identity Service</b><br/><i>service</i>")
    class svc_a c-compute
    svc_b("<b>Billing Service</b><br/><i>service</i>")
    class svc_b c-compute
    svc_c("<b>Product Service</b><br/><i>service</i>")
    class svc_c c-compute
  end

  subgraph data ["DATA"]
    direction TB
    db_a[("<b>Identity DB</b><br/><i>database</i>")]
    class db_a c-database
    db_b[("<b>Billing DB</b><br/><i>database</i>")]
    class db_b c-database
    db_c[("<b>Product DB</b><br/><i>database</i>")]
    class db_c c-database
    bus("<b>Event Bus</b><br/><i>message-broker</i><br/><span style='font-size:0.8em'>Async Events</span>")
    class bus standard
  end

  %% Orphans
  user(("<b>Client Apps</b><br/><i>actor</i>"))
  class user c-actor

  %% Edges
  gateway -.-> svc_a
  gateway -.-> svc_b
  gateway -.-> svc_c
  svc_a -.-> db_a
  svc_a -.-> bus
  svc_b -.-> db_b
  svc_b -.-> bus
  svc_c -.-> db_c
            

Business: Microservices Gateway

A modern architecture for scaling businesses, using an API Gateway to unify multiple distinct microservices (likely containerized).

Architecture Diagram

Description

For established businesses with multiple product lines or domains, a monolith can become a bottleneck. This architecture introduces a strong API Gateway pattern to route traffic to specialized services.

Core Components:

  • API Gateway: A high-performance entry point (Kong, Tyk, or Cloud Native LB) that handles auth, rate limiting, and routing.
  • Microservices: Distinct services (e.g., Billing, Users, Catalog) written in the best tool for the job.
  • Container Runtime: Services run in containers (Docker/K8s) for isolation.
  • Event Bus: Asynchronous communication happens via RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Cloud Pub/Sub.

Why this stack? It allows teams to work independently on different “Bounded Contexts” while presenting a unified API surface to clients.

Tech Stack

ComponentTechnology
Segmentbusiness
Deploymentcontainers
Gatewayapi-gateway
Orchestrationkubernetes-ecs
Communicationrest-grpc