Seata the deal: no more distributed transaction nightmares across (Spring Boot) microservices

Example of Apache Seata-managed distributed transactions across multiple Spring Boot microservices

Setup

Infra components

Go to infra folder:

docker compose up

This will start:

• MySQL (with the tables needed for Seata Server).
• Seata Server.
• Grafana, Prometheus and Tempo for observability.

Microservices

Foe each microservice folder (bff, credit-api and shipping-api) run:

./gradlew bootRun

This will start:

• microservice
• the dedicated db (MariaDB for credit-api and PostgreSQL for shipping-api)

Observability

• Grafana: http://localhost:3000
  • Spring Boot dashboard: http://localhost:3000/dashboards
  • Prometheus & Tempo: http://localhost:3000/explore

OpenAPI

Microservices OpenAPI:

• bff: http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html
• credit-api: http://localhost:8081/swagger-ui/index.html
• shipping-api: http://localhost:8082/swagger-ui/index.html