Smorgasbord

An overly convoluted mix of ideas and technologies

Table of Contents

• The Why
• The Technologies
  • The Auth Service
  • The Posts Service
  • The Communications Service
  • The Apollo Gateway
  • Shared

The Why

Before I went up into the mountains for a much needed vacation, I was reading a blog about federated GraphQL and Rust microservices. This got me thinking about a contrived project to work on where I had several microservices in different languages organized in a monorepo and all using GraphQL.

The Technologies

This is meant to be more diverse than necessary, this could all be done by one backend but that's not the point.

The Auth Service

Responsible for users and roles written in Rust.

• Diesel
• async-graphql

The Posts Service

Responsible for blog entries and comments written in NodeJS.

• NestJS

The Communications Service

Responsible for emails written in Ruby on Rails.

The Apollo Gateway

Responsible for combining it all together written in NodeJS.

Shared

• Docker/Kubernetes
• Postgres/MariaDB
• Apache Kafka