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Backend Engineering

Overview

This organization contains a collection of backend services designed to explore the architecture, design, and implementation of modern distributed applications. Each repository focuses on a single service while emphasizing clean architecture, maintainability, and practical software engineering principles.

The goal is to build production-inspired services that can be developed independently and later integrated to demonstrate service-oriented architecture and backend system design.


Purpose

This organization exists to:

  • Build modern backend services using Java and Spring Boot
  • Explore service-oriented and distributed architectures
  • Practice API design and backend development best practices
  • Understand communication patterns between independent services
  • Develop production-ready engineering habits through focused implementations

Repositories

Authentication Service

Responsible for user authentication, authorization, identity management, and secure access to backend services.


User Service

Manages user profiles, account information, preferences, and user-related business logic.


Inventory Service

Maintains product inventory, stock availability, inventory updates, and reservation workflows.


Payment Service

Processes payments and payment workflows while exploring transaction management, reliability, and idempotency.


Notification Service

Handles asynchronous delivery of notifications through channels such as email, SMS, and push notifications while exploring event-driven communication.


Engineering Principles

Projects within this organization emphasize:

  • Clean Architecture
  • RESTful API design
  • Layered application architecture
  • Testability
  • Maintainability
  • Security best practices
  • Scalability
  • Observability

Future Integration

Although each service is designed to function independently, they are intended to be integrated into a larger distributed system to explore:

  • Service-to-service communication
  • Event-driven architecture
  • API gateways
  • Containerization
  • Orchestration
  • Distributed transactions
  • Monitoring and logging

Status

This organization is an active engineering portfolio. Services are developed incrementally, with functionality, testing, documentation, and infrastructure expanding over time.

Popular repositories Loading

  1. authentication-service authentication-service Public

    Authentication and authorization service exploring identity, sessions, and token-based security.

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  2. notification-service notification-service Public

    Event-driven notification system for email, push, and async message delivery.

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  3. inventory-service inventory-service Public

    Service modeling inventory tracking, stock consistency, and concurrent updates.

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  4. payment-service payment-service Public

    Simulated payment processing service exploring transactions, idempotency, and financial system safety patterns.

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  5. user-service user-service Public

    Core user management service handling profiles, identity data, and user lifecycle operations.

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  6. .github .github Public

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