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API & Microservices Management

Control internal and external access to platform services.

UC-CORE-006: API Gateway & Orchestration

Purpose: Manage traffic, secure endpoints, and route requests to microservices.

Property Value
Actor DevOps / System
Trigger API Request
Priority P0

Capabilities:

  • Gateway Logic: Centralized entry point for all client requests (Web, Mobile, 3rd Party).

  • Rate Limiting:

    • Tenant-Level: Prevent one noisy tenant from affecting others (e.g., 100 req/sec).

    • User-Level: Prevent abuse.

  • Microservices Orchestration:

    • Route /api/booking to Booking Service.

    • Route /api/ai to AI Inference Service.

  • Developer Portal:

    • Generate API Tokens for 3rd party integrations.

    • View API Usage stats and Documentation (Swagger).

  • Request routed to booking-service.

  • Response returned to POS.

Acceptance Criteria:

  1. [ ] Gateway rejects requests without valid tokens (401 Unauthorized).
  2. [ ] Rate limits enforce 429 Too Many Requests response.
  3. [ ] Swagger documentation is auto-generated and accessible.