Practical Microservices

Creating Users

Hopefully that header made you cringe. “Creating users? Didn’t you start soapboxing on this in ​Beating a Dead Horse​?” Fair enough. Maybe “Assembling Users” or “Building Frankenstein’s Monster” would be a more accurate title. While our users aren’t monsters, we are going to take the various streams of data related to our users and assemble them into an aggregate view we’ll call “users.”

Specifically, we want a screen that shows users’ email addresses, the number of times they’ve logged in, and whether or not we think we sent them their registration email. This will be our first step in tracking down why people aren’t receiving their emails—do we even think we’ve sent them? If we think we have, then it might indicate that something ...