Microservices Rearchitecture for Media Licensing Platform to Enhance Maintainability and Scalability

The client’s existing web and admin platforms are built on a large, complex monolithic architecture, making maintenance, customization, and new feature development increasingly difficult and costly. The reliance on legacy systems hampers scalability and agility needed in a competitive media licensing landscape.

A global media licensing company managing licensing of video, music, images, and custom content, seeking to modernize its web and admin platforms for better agility and cost efficiency.

• Transform the monolithic backend into a comprehensive microservices-based architecture to improve system modularity and flexibility.
• Adopt a serverless architecture approach to reduce operational overhead and costs through pay-as-you-go cloud services.
• Develop microservices for critical functions such as user identity management, subscriptions, online sales, promotional activities, and product APIs.
• Decouple large legacy modules, particularly subscription management, into smaller, manageable services like rebilling, adjustments, and transitions.
• Implement secure authentication mechanisms such as Single Sign-On and multi-factor authentication, along with social login options.
• Enable easier maintenance, testing, and customization of web and admin platforms, resulting in accelerated delivery of new features.

• Microservices for user identity management, including Single Sign-On and multi-factor authentication.
• Flexible subscription management microservices supporting rebilling, adjustments, and lifecycle transitions.
• Online sales microservice integrating payment processing workflows.
• Promotion and product APIs facilitating promotional activities and product data management.
• An architecture leveraging serverless components like AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, and CloudFormation for deployment and orchestration.
• Use of microservice frameworks (e.g., Nest.js with TypeScript) for rapid development and consistency.

• Payment gateways for online sales processing
• Authentication providers supporting SSO and MFA
• Promotional and product information management systems

• Scalability: Ability to handle increased licensing data volume and user traffic effectively.
• Performance: Microservices should respond within defined latency thresholds to support seamless user experience.
• Security: Implementation of robust security measures including MFA, data encryption, and secure API gateways.
• Availability: Ensure high system availability with minimal downtime, leveraging cloud-native resilience features.
• Maintainability: Modular architecture enabling independent deployment and easier updates.

The rearchitecture aims to significantly improve platform maintainability, reduce operational costs through serverless deployment, facilitate faster feature development, and support scalability to accommodate a growing volume of media licensing transactions. These improvements are expected to result in accelerated time-to-market for new offerings, lower maintenance expenses, and enhanced customer experience.