Esfera Médica — Microservice Backend Evolution
Maintenance and continuous evolution of the backend of a 4-microservice ecosystem that I designed and implemented previously as an employee. New integrations, business modules and optimization of existing flows.
## Business Context
A 4-microservice ecosystem in production (Core, Billing, Administration, Medical Records) with independent databases, centralized RBAC, and async orchestration. I returned as a freelancer to continue evolving the backend.
## Challenge
Need to incorporate new business modules (commissions, advanced clinical records) into the existing ecosystem without breaking contracts between microservices or affecting production stability.
## Objectives
- ✓ Incorporate new modules without breaking contracts between microservices
- ✓ Keep async orchestration and queue processing stable
- ✓ Continue reducing technical debt in the backend
## Technical Approach
Backend development of new modules respecting existing bounded contexts between microservices. Implementation of commission management module with financial calculation logic aligned to the Billing model. Backend for medical record printed formats: optimized queries, data transformation and PDF generation with DomPDF. Maintenance of async invoicing jobs and synchronization between microservices.
## Architecture Decisions
Modules as bounded context extensions
New modules integrate as extensions of existing services (commissions in Billing, records in Medical Records) instead of creating additional microservices, maintaining cohesion and avoiding unnecessary coordination complexity.
## Impact & Results
## Key Insights
Resuming a backend you designed allows evaluating modeling decisions with temporal perspective. Financial modules require strict decimal precision and complete calculation auditing.