Hands-on account microservice development

To start from scratch, let’s create a folder called src. We plan to organize our main application structure under this folder. This is going to be a data-centric application, so it’s better to start development from the database segment.

In the end, we plan to build the following project structure for our application:

Figure 5.3: The final project structure

To follow along with ease, don’t forget to download the source code from our repository.

Implementing our data-access functionalities

We always store data somewhere. The most used storage for data is a database. The data access that we plan to implement relies on MongoDB and isolates us from the difficulties of querying a database using SQL. It’s like using arrays or lists but under the hood, it interacts with a database.

To start creating our account microservice, do the following:

Create a db folder under src.

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