Overview

Glotixz - Ultimate Stack is an innovative event-driven microservices eCommerce application designed to streamline ticket sales for events through a robust, Kubernetes-based architecture. Utilizing modern technologies like TypeScript, Express.js, and Stripe for payment processing, this full-stack solution simplifies the development and deployment process, leveraging GitOps practices with ArgoCD. Built for cloud native operations, Glotixz is optimized for staging environments, allowing developers to focus on building and testing features before launching them into production.

With the entire ecosystem deployed on CIVO Kubernetes and powered by Infrastructure as Code principles using Terraform, Glotixz represents the future of eCommerce applications in a microservices architecture. Its integration with service mesh technology via Istio adds an additional layer of flexibility and networking control, ensuring that the platform is both efficient and agile for developers.

Features

• Event-Driven Architecture: The backend services leverage an event-driven model using NATS Streaming Server, ensuring real-time event delivery and processing between microservices.

• TypeScript/JavaScript Framework: Built using TypeScript and JavaScript, it enhances code quality and developer productivity by providing a modern coding environment.

• Kubernetes Deployment: Leveraging Kubernetes for container orchestration, the application benefits from scalability, resilience, and efficient resource management.

• GitOps with ArgoCD: Simplifies the deployment process through GitOps practices, allowing for seamless management of applications via version control.

• Payment Integration: Streamline sales transactions with integrated Stripe payment solutions, ensuring secure and efficient payment processing for users.

• Infrastructure as Code: Using Terraform, Glotixz provisions resources and manages infrastructure through code, which enhances reproducibility and version control.

• Development Tools: The application utilizes a variety of development tools such as Okteto CLI for cloud-native container management and kubectl for Kubernetes cluster interaction, making development efficient and effective.

• Flexible Namespace Management: Tools like kubens and kubectx aid in easy management and switching between various namespaces and cluster contexts, enhancing developer experience.