Scalable freelance platform on microservices + event-driven architecture. 6 services: API Gateway, Authentication, Gig CRUD, Order/Payment (Stripe), Notification, and real-time Chat with Elasticsearch-powered search and filtering.
Architecture
Six independently deployable services behind an API gateway: authentication, gig CRUD, order/payment (Stripe), notifications, and a real-time chat service with Elasticsearch-backed search. Services communicate over an event bus, so a slow consumer never blocks a request path.