Microservice Architecture

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Pattern: Client-side UI composition

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Context

You have applied the Microservice architecture pattern. Services are developed by business capability/subdomain-oriented teams that are also responsible for the user experience. Some UI screens/pages display data from multiple service. Consider, for example, an Amazon-style product detail page, which displays numerous data items including:

  • Basic information about the book such as title, author, price, etc.
  • Your purchase history for the book
  • Availability
  • Buying options
  • Other items that are frequently bought with this book
  • Other items bought by customers who bought this book
  • Customer reviews
  • Sellers ranking
  • …

Each data item corresponds to a separate service and how it is displayed is, therefore, the responsibility of a different team.

Problem

How to implement a UI screen or page that displays data from multiple services?

Forces

Solution

Each team develops a client-side UI component, such an AngularJS directive, that implements the region of the page/screen for their service. A UI team is responsible implementing the page skeletons that build pages/screens by composing multiple, service-specific UI components.

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