This repository contains a microservices architecture implemented using Spring Boot. The architecture includes several microservices responsible for different aspects of an e-commerce application: Order service, Inventory service, Product service, User service, Discovery server, and API gateway.

• Getting Started
• Architecture Overview
• Services
• Setup and Configuration
• Usage

Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• Java Development Kit (JDK) 8+
• Maven for building the project

The microservices architecture is designed to promote the application's modularity, scalability, and maintainability. Here's a brief overview of the components:

• Order service: Manages customer orders and order-related operations.
• Inventory service: Handles inventory management and stock-related operations.
• Product service: Manages product information and related functionalities.
• User service: Manages user accounts, authentication, and user-related operations.
• Discovery server: Implements service discovery and registration using Netflix Eureka.
• API gateway: Acts as the entry point for external requests and routes them to the appropriate microservices.
• Distributed Tracing: Incorporates distributed tracing for monitoring and debugging.

• Endpoint: /orders
• Manages customer orders and provides operations like creating, updating, and retrieving orders.

• Endpoint: /inventory
• Manages inventory information and provides operations like checking stock availability.

• Endpoint: /products
• Manages product details and provides operations to retrieve product information.

• Endpoint: /users
• Handles user-related operations, authentication, and account management.

• Endpoint: /eureka
• Service discovery server that allows microservices to register and discover each other.

• Endpoint: /api
• Acts as a single entry point for external requests and routes them to the respective services.

• Incorporates using micrometer/zipkin. This enables end-to-end tracing of requests across microservices.

To run the microservices locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository.
2. Navigate to each service's directory and run mvn spring-boot:run to start each microservice.
3. Start the Discovery server and API Gateway before the other services are running.
4. Set up the Micrometer/Zipkin agent in each microservice for distributed tracing.

Make sure you have Java and Maven installed on your system.

• Access the services through the API Gateway at http://localhost:8080/api/v1/{service-name}.
• Use the Eureka dashboard to monitor registered services at http://localhost:8761/eureka.