E-Commerce Platforms: Architecture, Performance, and Security
E-Commerce Platforms: Architecture, Performance, and Security Modern e-commerce platforms combine many moving parts. The choices you make in architecture affect speed, reliability, and safety for customers. A clear design helps teams work together and keeps pages responsive even during rush hours. Architecture considerations A storefront talks to several back-end services: catalog, cart, checkout, payment, inventory, and orders. You can run everything as one monolith or as a group of microservices. For many shops, API-first design makes it easier to test parts and add features later. Common components also include a search service, a recommendation engine, and a simple analytics dashboard. Think about data flow: user requests move through an API gateway to the services, which then return data or trigger actions like placing an order. ...