laravel-api-microservices

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps developers design and implement robust internal microservices in Laravel 13, addressing challenges related to service boundaries, communication, and event-driven architecture.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Service Boundaries: Defines clear domain ownership and bounded context principles for each service.
• Database Ownership: Implements rules to avoid direct database access across services and enforce service API access.
• Communication Strategy: Offers guidance on preferred communication methods (events, gRPC, REST) and decision matrices.
• Event-Driven Integration: Provides examples on defining, publishing, and listening to events across services.
• Saga Pattern: Explains distributed transactions and the saga pattern with compensating actions.
• Service Discovery: Covers DNS-based and configuration-based discovery methods.
• Observability: Discusses structured logging and distributed tracing.
• Health Checks: Includes health check implementation examples.
• Deployment & CI/CD: Offers Docker Compose configurations for local development and guidance on CI/CD pipelines.
• Microservices Enterprise Checklist: Provides a comprehensive checklist for microservices development.

Quick Start

Run the skill to learn about microservices design in Laravel 13, starting with defining service boundaries and communication strategies.