Java Simplicity with Manas: November 2024

Electronic Health Record (EHR) Microservice is a robust, modern system developed using the Spring Boot framework.

It is designed with a microservices architecture pattern and employs Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) with Kafka as the message broker. EDA allows the system to respond in real time, enabling asynchronous communication between microservices through Kafka, which provides high-throughput and low-latency message delivery.

Microservice Architecture Patterns

API Gateway Pattern: Implemented using Spring Cloud Gateway, it acts as a single entry point for clients, routing requests to appropriate microservices and aggregating the responses. This reduces the number of round trips between the client and application.
Database per Service: Each microservice has its own dedicated database, either SQL or noSQL. This ensures loose coupling, improves performance, and enables each service to use a type of database that is most suited to its needs.
Event Sourcing Pattern: This pattern ensures all changes to application state are stored as a sequence of events. Not just can we query these events, we can also use the event log to reconstruct past states, and as a foundation to automatically adjust the state to cope with retroactive changes.
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS): This pattern separates read and update operations for a data store, optimizing performance, scalability, and security.
Distributed Tracing: Implemented using Sleuth and Zipkin, it provides visibility into the system by tracing requests across multiple services. This is crucial for debugging and latency optimization.
External Configuration: Using Spring Cloud Config Server and library, configuration across multiple services can be managed centrally. This is particularly useful in a microservices environment where there are many services to manage.
Service Discovery Pattern: Implemented using Netflix Eureka server and client, it allows microservices to find and communicate with each other without hard-coding hostname and port. This is crucial in dynamic environments where the number of instances of a service can autoscale.
Circuit Breaker Pattern: Implemented using Resilience4j, it prevents a network or a service failure from cascading to other services. It does so by stopping the system from making a failing service call, returning a default response instead.

Caching: Using Ehcache, it significantly improves the performance of the system by storing the data in memory that the application frequently accesses.

Security: Implemented using Spring Security with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), it ensures data access control at granular level, making the system more secure.

Customize Auditing Service Microservice: This feature provides crucial information about the activities in the system, it helps in debugging and provides an audit trail which is a requirement for many compliance standards.

Translation using FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources): FHIR is a standard for health care data exchange, published by HL7, which makes integration of EHR data smoother and more robust.

Unit Test Coverage: Implemented using JUnit 5, it ensures that the codebase works as expected and helps to prevent regressions when changes are made.

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD): Implemented using Cucumber, it encourages collaboration between developers, QA and non-technical or business participants in a software project.

Error and Exception Handling: Custom classes are used to handle errors and exceptions, ensuring a consistent strategy for handling errors and exceptions across the application.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment: Using Jenkins

Containerization: using docker

This meticulously designed and implemented architecture allows the EHR Microservice to be highly scalable, maintainable, efficient, and secure, making it well-suited to the complex and sensitive nature of health record management.

Below is the list of the microservice

1. Netflix Eureka Discovery Microservice:

https://github.com/manaspratimdas/starter-eda-microservice/tree/eureka-server

2. Spring Cloud API Gateway

https://github.com/manaspratimdas/api-gateway/tree/master

3. Spring Configuration Server

https://github.com/manaspratimdas/configserver-app

4. Configuration Library

https://github.com/manaspratimdas/configserver

5. Shared Library

https://github.com/manaspratimdas/share

6. Audit Service