Practical Microservices

Describing the Creators Portal

The Creators Portal is an Application that writes commands to the Message Store. We’re not going to build it here because, uh, let’s say our development efforts are going so well and we’re showing so much value to our company and investors that they’ve brought on another team to work on the solid foundation we’ve put down. This other team will build the Creators Portal, but they’re going to have questions for you since you designed the message contract. You’ll need to advise them.

You can do this. You’ve built a few applications already, so think through the contract we just developed. Would you have the Creators Portal directly receive the video uploads? Would it have users upload directly to something like Amazon’s ...