Overview

The Orders Service is responsible for managing customer orders within the system. It handles order creation, updating, status tracking, and interactions with other services such as Inventory, Payment, and Notification services to ensure smooth order processing and fulfillment.

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Sends 4 messages

This service sends messages to downstream consumers

Receives 4 messages

This service receives messages from other services

Core features

Feature	Description
Order Management	Handles order creation, updates, and status tracking
Inventory Integration	Validates and processes inventory for incoming orders
Payment Processing	Integrates with payment gateways to handle payment transactions
Notification Integration	Sends notifications to users and other services

Architecture diagram

Messages for this service

Sends messages (4)

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Events (3)Commands (1)

Name	Version	Type	Summary
Add inventory	v0.0.3	command	Command that will add item to a given inventory id
Order amended	v0.0.1	event	Indicates an order has been changed
Order cancelled	v0.0.1	event	Indicates an order has been canceled
Order confirmed	v0.0.1	event	Indicates an order has been confirmed

Receives messages (3)

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Events (1)Queries (1)Commands (1)

Name	Version	Type	Summary
Place Order	v0.0.1	command	Command that will place an order
User subscription cancelled	v0.0.1	event	An event that is triggered when a users subscription has been cancelled
Get order details	v0.0.1	query	GET request that will return detailed information about a specific order, identified by its orderId.

Infrastructure

The Orders Service is hosted on AWS.

The diagram below shows the infrastructure of the Orders Service. The service is hosted on AWS and uses AWS Lambda to handle the order requests. The order is stored in an AWS Aurora database and the order metadata is stored in an AWS S3 bucket.

You can find more information about the Orders Service infrastructure in the Orders Service documentation.