Why Meridian
“The best technology doesn’t ask for attention. It quietly makes room for what matters.”Our approach →
Engineering portfolio · Personal project
This is a personal project.
Not a real shopping website.
Meridian is a full-stack system-design demonstration built to explore microservices, event-driven commerce, cloud infrastructure, and reliable transactional workflows. No real products are sold and no real payments are collected.
Technology stack
Built across the entire stack.
01Next.js02React03TypeScript04Node.js05Apollo GraphQL06FastAPI07Python08PostgreSQL09Redis10Kafka / Redpanda11WebSockets12Docker13Kubernetes14AWS EKS15Terraform16GitHub Actions17Prometheus18Grafana
End-to-end workflow
How the system works.
From storefront interaction to asynchronous events and cloud delivery.
Experience
Customer + AdminNext.js StorefrontReact · TypeScript
→Single API surfaceGraphQL GatewayNode.js · Apollo · JWT
Queries · mutations · authentication↓
Domain services
01CatalogProducts + discovery
02PricingQuotes + discounts
03InventoryAtomic reservations
04OrdersCheckout + workflow
05PaymentsSafe mock adapter
State · cache · asynchronous messages↓
Data + events
System of recordPostgreSQLCatalog · inventory · orders
Fast stateRedisPersistent carts · price cache
Event backboneKafka / RedpandaOrder + inventory events
↗ WebSockets send live order status back to the storefrontDelivery
GitHub Actions→
Docker Images→
Kubernetes→
AWS EKS
OperationsTerraform provisions AWS·Prometheus measures·Grafana visualizes
Thoughtful technology · Live collection
Objects that make
every day flow.
Considered tools for work, sound, and life—now powered by real-time inventory and transactional checkout.
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Live inventory
Persistent cart
Event-driven orders
Secure mock checkout
The live collection
Find your everyday essentials.
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Meridian account
Welcome back.
Customer: customer@meridian.local / meridian123
Admin: admin@meridian.local / admin123
Admin operations
Inventory management
Add a new product
Restock inventory
Recent orders
OrderCustomerStatusTotal
No orders yet. Complete a customer checkout to see one here.
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Platform Architecture
Meridian is a distributed commerce system — each concern is its own service, wired together through a GraphQL gateway.