LNM Microservices

2020

Andela·Professional·

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A microservices ecosystem for processing Lipa Na M-Pesa merchant applications and approvals at Safaricom, powered by Spring Boot, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

Overview

Contributed to a suite of Spring Boot microservices handling merchant application submission, approval workflows, and batch processing.

Optimized SQL queries across backend services, improving performance and efficiency.

Worked with event-driven communication between services using Kafka for reliable async processing.

Services deployed on Kubernetes with Prometheus monitoring, Redis caching, and MySQL persistence.

Problem Statement

Lipa Na M-Pesa merchant onboarding required a scalable microservices architecture to handle multi-stage application processing and approval workflows.

Tech Stack

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Redis

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Microservices

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