e-Commerce Mobile Systems Development with Enhanced Microservice Architecture Design

This paper investigates the suitability of using microservice architecture over monolithic for e-Commerce mobile applications. It examines past studies on this topic and provides a more detailed comparison between the two architectures, especially with their development processes. It also tackles the common issue of complex testing environments found in microservice systems by proposing a new feature called the Core Logger. Comparative study has been conducted to compare two e-Commerce systems with the same set of features based on a monolithic backend and a microservice backend. The microservice system contains the proposed Core Logger feature, which prints out the messages from all services in a sequential manner. The results showed that while the microservice system was initially harder to develop, it offered better overall scalability in development and performance. The Core Logger can reduce the time taken significantly during testing for the microservice system. The paper concludes by recommending the initial usage of monolithic architecture before migrating to a microservice backend for its better scalability, along with the implementation of the Core Logger which helps in expediting the testing process and shortening the overall development period.