Cinemark
Cinema digital platform · via Improving
EntertainmentE-commerceNow
Senior Software Engineer · via Improving
Context
The chain’s digital channel covers showtimes, screen and seat selection, and payment. Load concentrates on premiere days.
The challenge
Ticket sales have to hold up during the premiere spike, and they depend on box-office and payment integrations that cannot be changed at will.
What it does
- Showtimes and listings
- Ticket purchase and seat selection
- Payment and box-office integrations
What I did
- Digital and e-commerce experience for the chain: backend, integrations and ticketing.
- NestJS microservices talking over Azure Event Hubs, with PostgreSQL and Redis behind them and React on the frontend.
- Integrations with the payment gateway, the box-office systems and SendGrid for transactional email. Pipelines and deployments through Azure DevOps.
Stack
- Backend
- NestJSTypeScript
- Frontend
- ReactJavaScript
- Data
- PostgreSQLRedis
- Events
- Azure Event Hubs
- Integrations
- Payment gatewayBox officeSendGrid
- Infrastructure
- AzureAzure DevOps
Services practised here
- Backend Architecture & APIsYour product ends up with a backend that survives growth: services with clear boundaries, documented APIs and a data model built for the queries that actually run.
- Platforms & Distributed SystemsWhen a product grows, the problem stops being a feature and becomes how the services talk to each other. That is where service boundaries, event delivery and flows that cannot be lost along the way come in.
- Cloud, DevOps & IaCInfrastructure ends up described as code and deployment automated, so shipping to production is routine and anyone on the team can do it.