system-design-lab
System Design Lab compares monolithic and microservices implementations of an e-commerce platform, providing hands-on examples of distributed system patterns including event-driven communication via RabbitMQ. The project serves software engineers and architects learning to transition from single-application designs to scalable, distributed architectures through fully containerized, side-by-side code examples.
System Design Lab provides a side-by-side comparison of monolithic and microservices architectures through a fully containerized e-commerce platform implementation. The project serves as an educational resource for developers learning distributed system patterns with RabbitMQ event-driven communication and modern tech stack including FastAPI and React.
- ✓Comprehensive educational approach with both monolithic and microservices implementations for direct comparison
- ✓Well-structured Docker setup with clear separation of concerns and production-ready patterns like API gateway and event-driven messaging
- ✓Excellent documentation with clear learning objectives, architecture explanations, and transparent work-in-progress status
- →Add comprehensive test coverage and CI/CD pipeline to demonstrate production-ready quality standards
- →Include actual code samples in the README to show implementation differences between architectures more concretely