Edgelab – Client relationships management

2021

Why

Edge Laboratories SA wants to better control the access and consumption of the endpoints that make up its public API, so that fine-grained billing can be implemented.

What

• To design and develop an API for the management of clients, and organizations with their users.
• To design and develop an API for the management of permissions.
• To design and develop a user interface.

Requirements

• To be the source of truth for API keys and permissions of users of organizations.
• To automatize the manual process in place.

Challenges

• To integrate token-based authentication with OIDC.
• To integrate with Edgelab API gateway as source of API-keys and permissions.

Organization

Team of 2 software engineers (me) and 1 product owner.

Practices

Software development

• Specification by Example
• Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
• Acceptance-Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
• Continuous delivery

Software design

• REST API design
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Clean & Hexagonal architecture
• Micro-services architecture
• Reactive programming

Technologies

• Kotlin, Java, SpringBoot-Webflux, Reactor
• Angular, Typescript
• OAuth, OIDC, AUth0
• Jenkins CI, Grafana, Logstash, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kong, Consul, Vault, Docker, Nomad
• Terraform, Amazon Cloud