About Product Catalog Application

Application Architecture

The example application architecture we’ll walk you through creating on App Mesh is called Product Catalog and is used in any eCommerce Application. We have attempted to pick different technology framework for building applications to include the polyglot nature of microservices-based applications.

This application is composed of three microservices:

Product Catalog App without App Mesh

  • Frontend
    • Frontend service frontend-node shows the UI for the Product Catalog functionality
    • Developed in Nodejs with ejs templating
    • Deployed to EKS Managed Nodegroup
  • Product Catalog Backend
    • Backend service prodcatalog is a Rest API Service that performs following operations:
      • Add a Product into Product Catalog
      • Get the Product from the Product Catalog
      • Calls Catalog Detail backend service proddetail to get Product Catalog Detail information like vendors
      • Get all the products from the Product Catalog 
        
/products

{
    "products": {
        "1": "Table",
        "2": "Chair"
    },
    "details": {
        "version": "2",
        "vendors": [
            "ABC.com",
            "XYZ.com"
        ]
    }
}
    • Developed in Python Fask Restplus with Swagger UI for Rest API
    • Deployed to EKS Fargate
  • Catalog Detail Backend
    • Backend service proddetail is a Rest API Service that performs following operation:
      • Get catalog detail which includes version number and vendor names 
        
/catalogDetail

{
    "version": "2",
    "vendors": [
        "ABC.com",
        "XYZ.com"
    ]
}
    • Developed in Nodejs
    • Deployed to EKS Managed Nodegroup

From the above diagram, the service-call relationship between the services in Product Catalog application can be summarized as:

  • Frontend frontend-node »»> calls »»> Product Catalog backend prodcatalog.
  • Product Catalog backend prodcatalog »»> calls »»> Catalog Detail backend proddetail.