Skip to content

Commit f6dbda7

Browse files
committed
docs: genreate ecommerce sample
Signed-off-by: Otavio Santana <otaviopolianasantana@gmail.com>
1 parent 80524fe commit f6dbda7

File tree

1 file changed

+230
-0
lines changed

1 file changed

+230
-0
lines changed
Lines changed: 230 additions & 0 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,230 @@
1+
= Multi-Channel Product Updates Architecture
2+
:toc: macro
3+
:toclevels: 2
4+
:sectnums:
5+
:icons: font
6+
:source-highlighter: rouge
7+
8+
This document outlines a system architecture for managing multi-channel product updates. It ingests vendor data, adjusts pricing with a repricer, and sends updates to marketplaces like Amazon and eBay.
9+
10+
== System Architecture
11+
12+
=== C1 Context Diagram
13+
14+
[source, mermaid]
15+
----
16+
C4Context
17+
title 🛒 Multi-Channel Product Update System – Context Diagram
18+
19+
Person(vendor, "🧑 Vendor", "Sends product updates via API, FTP, or email")
20+
Person(internalOps, "👩‍💼 Internal Operator", "Monitors and configures pricing rules")
21+
System(system, "🛍️ Product Update System", "Processes and dispatches product updates to marketplaces")
22+
System_Ext(marketplace, "🏬 Marketplace Platform", "Receives updates from the internal system")
23+
24+
Rel(vendor, system, "📤 Sends product & inventory updates")
25+
Rel(internalOps, system, "⚙️ Manages pricing and monitors system")
26+
Rel(system, marketplace, "📦 Pushes inventory and pricing updates")
27+
----
28+
29+
=== C2 Container Diagram
30+
31+
[source, mermaid]
32+
----
33+
C4Container
34+
title 🧩 Product Update System – Container Diagram
35+
36+
Person(vendor, "🧑 Vendor")
37+
38+
System_Boundary(productUpdateSystem, "🛍️ Product Update System") {
39+
Container(ingestion, "🔌 Ingestion Service", "Apache Camel / Spring Integration", "Handles API, FTP, and email inputs")
40+
Container(queue, "📨 Queueing System", "Kafka / RabbitMQ", "Decouples ingestion from processing")
41+
Container(preprocessor, "🧹 Preprocessing Service", "Spring Boot / Quarkus", "Cleans and normalizes data")
42+
Container(repricer, "🧮 Repricer Engine", "Drools / Custom Logic", "Applies pricing rules based on cost and business strategy")
43+
Container(dispatcher, "📤 Marketplace Dispatcher", "Micronaut / Spring WebClient", "Sends updates to marketplaces like Amazon, eBay")
44+
Container(cache, "⚡ Price Cache", "Redis", "Stores temporary price decisions")
45+
Container(storage, "💾 Persistent Storage", "PostgreSQL / MinIO", "Stores raw and processed update data")
46+
Container(monitoring, "📊 Monitoring & Alerting", "Prometheus + Grafana", "Tracks health metrics and errors")
47+
Container(errorHandler, "❌ Error Handler", "Standalone Service", "Handles retries, dead-letter queues, and logging")
48+
}
49+
50+
System_Ext(marketplace, "🏬 Marketplace Platform", "Amazon, eBay, etc.")
51+
52+
Rel(vendor, ingestion, "📤 Sends product updates")
53+
Rel(ingestion, queue, "📨 Publishes messages")
54+
Rel(queue, preprocessor, "🔁 Sends message for cleaning")
55+
Rel(preprocessor, repricer, "📊 Sends normalized data")
56+
Rel(repricer, cache, "⚡ Caches price data")
57+
Rel(repricer, dispatcher, "📤 Sends repriced updates")
58+
Rel(dispatcher, marketplace, "🚚 Pushes updates")
59+
Rel(dispatcher, storage, "📝 Logs update results")
60+
Rel(preprocessor, storage, "🗃️ Stores raw input")
61+
Rel(dispatcher, errorHandler, "❌ Reports failures")
62+
Rel(errorHandler, queue, "🔁 Requeues for retry")
63+
Rel(errorHandler, monitoring, "📢 Triggers alerts")
64+
----
65+
66+
=== System Integration Flow
67+
68+
[source, mermaid]
69+
----
70+
graph TD
71+
subgraph Vendors
72+
A1[🔌 API Input] --> I[🛠️ Ingestion Layer]
73+
A2[📂 FTP Listener] --> I
74+
A3[📧 Email Parser CSV] --> I
75+
end
76+
77+
I --> Q[📨 Kafka / RabbitMQ Queue]
78+
79+
Q --> P[🧹 Preprocessing Service]
80+
P --> S1[(💾 Raw Data Storage - MinIO)]
81+
P --> V[🧪 Validation & Normalization]
82+
V --> R[🧮 Repricer Service]
83+
R --> S2[(⚡ Price Cache - Redis)]
84+
R --> D[(📦 Final Update Queue)]
85+
86+
D --> M1[🛒 Amazon Sync Service]
87+
D --> M2[🛍️ eBay Sync Service]
88+
D --> M3[🏬 Other Channels]
89+
90+
M1 --> O1[(🔁 API Response)]
91+
M2 --> O2
92+
M3 --> O3
93+
94+
subgraph Monitoring & Reliability
95+
E1[❌ Error Queue]
96+
E2[🔁 DLQ / Retry Logic]
97+
E3[📊 Alerting Prometheus + Grafana]
98+
end
99+
100+
M1 -->|❗ Failure| E1
101+
M2 -->|❗ Failure| E1
102+
E1 --> E2
103+
E2 --> Q
104+
E2 --> E3
105+
----
106+
107+
108+
== Data Flow Breakdown
109+
110+
[source, mermaid]
111+
----
112+
graph LR
113+
subgraph Ingestion
114+
A1[🔌 API Input]
115+
A2[📂 FTP Listener]
116+
A3[📧 Email Parser CSV]
117+
A1 --> I[🛠️ Ingestion Service]
118+
A2 --> I
119+
A3 --> I
120+
end
121+
122+
I --> Q[📨 Kafka / RabbitMQ Queue]
123+
124+
subgraph Processing
125+
Q --> P[🧹 Preprocessor]
126+
P --> N[🧪 Normalization]
127+
N --> S1[(💾 Raw Data Backup - MinIO)]
128+
end
129+
130+
N --> R[🧮 Repricer Engine]
131+
R --> C[⚡ Redis Price Cache]
132+
133+
subgraph Dispatch
134+
R --> UQ[📦 Final Update Queue]
135+
UQ --> D1[🛒 Amazon Worker]
136+
UQ --> D2[🛍️ eBay Worker]
137+
UQ --> D3[🏬 Other Marketplace Worker]
138+
end
139+
140+
D1 --> A1Resp[(🔁 Amazon API Resp)]
141+
D2 --> A2Resp[(🔁 eBay API Resp)]
142+
D3 --> A3Resp[(🔁 Other Resp)]
143+
144+
subgraph Failure Handling
145+
D1 -->|❗ Fail| E1[❌ Error Queue]
146+
D2 -->|❗ Fail| E1
147+
D3 -->|❗ Fail| E1
148+
E1 --> E2[🔁 DLQ & Retry Service]
149+
E2 --> Q
150+
end
151+
152+
subgraph Monitoring & Observability
153+
I --> M[📊 Metrics Prometheus]
154+
P --> M
155+
R --> M
156+
D1 --> M
157+
E1 --> M
158+
E2 --> M
159+
end
160+
----
161+
162+
=== 1. Vendor Ingestion Layer
163+
164+
- **API**: REST endpoints for structured input
165+
- **FTP Listener**: Scheduled job polling vendor files
166+
- **Email Parser**: Extracts CSV from email attachments
167+
- Normalized into a unified schema and sent to Kafka or RabbitMQ for decoupling and backpressure.
168+
169+
=== 2. Processing & Repricing
170+
171+
- **Preprocessing**: Cleans and validates incoming payloads.
172+
- **Raw Storage**: S3-compatible store (e.g., MinIO) for auditing and reprocessing.
173+
- **Repricer**: Applies pricing strategies using input cost, competition, and business rules.
174+
- **Cache**: Redis for fast access to recent pricing decisions.
175+
176+
=== 3. Update Dispatch
177+
178+
- **Dispatch Queue**: Stores final update payloads.
179+
- **Channel Workers**: One per marketplace (Amazon, eBay, etc.), using async non-blocking HTTP clients like `WebClient` or `Apache HttpAsyncClient`.
180+
- **Rate Limiting**: Use of a `resilience4j`-based circuit breaker or retry policy.
181+
182+
=== 4. Error Handling & Observability
183+
184+
- **Error Queue**: Captures failures to isolate processing.
185+
- **DLQ / Retry Logic**: Attempts reprocessing with exponential backoff.
186+
- **Prometheus + Grafana**: Metric scraping and dashboards.
187+
- **Structured Logs**: Output JSON logs via OpenTelemetry or Logstash-compatible format.
188+
189+
== ☁️ Scalability Considerations
190+
191+
- Kafka/RabbitMQ enable **horizontal scaling** of workers.
192+
- Stateless microservices (e.g., using Spring Boot or Quarkus) can be **scaled independently**.
193+
- Redis + S3 provide separation between fast lookup and deep storage.
194+
195+
== 🔧 Technology Stack (Open Source)
196+
197+
- **Ingestion**: Apache Camel / Spring Integration
198+
- **Queueing**: Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ
199+
- **Processing**: Quarkus / Micronaut / Spring Boot
200+
- **Storage**: PostgreSQL for metadata, MinIO for object store
201+
- **Repricing**: Business Rule Engine (Drools or custom)
202+
- **Cache**: Redis
203+
- **Observability**: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
204+
- **Orchestration**: Kubernetes (K8s)
205+
- **Retry / Circuit Breaker**: Resilience4j
206+
207+
== 🛠 Design Choices
208+
209+
- *Event-driven architecture*: Enables decoupling and asynchronous processing.
210+
- *Polyglot persistence*: Combines cache, object store, and relational DBs for performance and flexibility.
211+
- *Replayability*: Kafka topics and raw data storage allow easy replay on failure.
212+
- *Cloud-native ready*: Designed for containerized environments with horizontal scalability.
213+
214+
== ⚖️ Trade-offs and Design Decisions
215+
216+
- **Open-source vs. managed services**:
217+
Chose open-source tools (Kafka, Redis, MinIO) for neutrality and control.
218+
→ Trade-off: full responsibility for scaling and ops.
219+
220+
- **State in cache/queue vs. database**:
221+
Handled transient state (e.g., repricing, retries) via Redis and Kafka for throughput and decoupling.
222+
→ Trade-off: more distributed coordination, eventual consistency.
223+
224+
- **Rule-based vs. static repricing**:
225+
Enabled Drools and custom logic for flexible pricing strategies.
226+
→ Trade-off: higher complexity and need for business rule governance.
227+
228+
- **Internal scalability vs. API constraints**:
229+
System scales horizontally, but marketplaces impose rate limits.
230+
→ Trade-off: real-world throughput is gated by external dependencies.

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)