Future Improvements

This page intentionally lists gaps observed in the current codebase rather than invented roadmap items.

High-value engineering improvements

1. Align analytics success topic:

   • payment-service publishes payment-success
   • analytics-service listens to payment-completed

2. Add analytics database bootstrap to Docker MySQL init script

3. Add CI/CD:

   • build backend services
   • build frontend
   • build docs
   • run automated tests

4. Add production deployment assets:

   • reverse proxy config
   • TLS termination
   • cloud infrastructure definitions

5. Expand observability:

   • metrics
   • tracing
   • dashboards
   • alerting

6. Add API-level integration tests across payment/order/notification flow

7. Revisit some service security policies:

   • confirm public vs authenticated reads in book-service
   • confirm /api/orders/userId should remain non-admin

8. Formalize API and event schemas:

   • OpenAPI generation
   • versioned Kafka contracts

9. Expand book image support:

   • controller exists, but endpoints are not implemented

10. Add analytics-service and frontend to docker-compose.yml

11. Update frontend/README.md:

    • current file still describes auth/profile-only scope

12. Remove or wire legacy frontend pages:

    • BookListPage, BookDetailsPage, CreateBookPage, EditBookPage, AppShell

13. Reconcile auth role model:

    • backend Role enum includes MANAGER
    • frontend only normalizes USER and ADMIN