This repository implements a quiz application using a robust microservices architecture. This approach promotes modularity, scalability, and independent development, making it ideal for building complex and evolving applications.
The microservices architecture decomposes the application into smaller, self-contained services. Each service owns a specific business capability, such as managing questions or quizzes, and operates independently. This approach offers several advantages:
- Enhanced Modularity: Fosters a well-organized codebase, promoting easier understanding and maintenance.
- Superior Scalability: Enables scaling individual services based on their specific load, optimizing resource utilization.
- Agile Development: Allows concurrent development and deployment of services by separate teams, accelerating development cycles.
- Resilient System Design: Isolates failures within a single service, minimizing the impact on the entire application.
The application leverages the following key components:
- API Gateway: Acts as the single entry point for user interaction. It routes incoming requests to the appropriate microservices based on their functionality.
- Eureka Discovery Server: Functions as a service registry, maintaining a centralized record of all available microservices within the application. Each service registers itself with Eureka, providing its location and other relevant details.
- Quiz Service: Manages the creation, retrieval, and overall lifecycle of quizzes within the application.
- Question Service: Handles individual questions, including their creation, retrieval, and associated metadata.
- Feign Client: A library utilized by the Quiz Service to seamlessly communicate with the Question Service. It simplifies HTTP request exchanges between microservices by abstracting away underlying network complexities and also helps in load balancing.
This architecture provides significant benefits for quiz applications:
- Scalability: Enables independent scaling of the API Gateway and individual services to handle surges in user traffic.
- Agile Development: Allows concurrent development of Quiz and Question services by separate teams, accelerating development cycles.
- Improved Maintainability: Promotes a modular codebase that is easier to understand, maintain, and evolve.
To run this application, ensure you have the following tools installed:
- Java Development Kit (JDK)
- Maven
1. Clone the Repository
git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/Quizzify-Microservice.git2. Build the Services
cd Quizzify-Microservice
mvn clean install3. Run the Services
Each microservice can be started independently using a command like:
mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring.profiles.active=quiz-service4. Configure Eureka Server
(Optional) For the Eureka server to locate other microservices, edit its application.properties file to specify their IP addresses.
5. Access the Application
(Once configured) Access the API Gateway through the port defined in its application.properties file (default: 8080).