Employee Operational Overview

Summary

Employee Service owns its process, extracted persistence, HTTP surfaces, and staged integration messages, while gateway cutover and several operational ownership boundaries remain transitional.

Audience

• DevOps/support engineers, developers, QA engineers, and architects

Overview

At startup the service registers observability, messaging abstractions, tenant context, EF Core, repositories, handlers, validators, authentication/authorization, API discovery, and health checks. It applies migrations unless migration execution is explicitly suppressed by deployment configuration, then maps health, service-information, direct, compatibility, and foundation endpoints.

Responsibilities and dependencies

Area	Confirmed responsibility or dependency
Process	ASP.NET Core service artifact
Persistence	Employee EF Core context and migrations
Identity	Accepts configured JWT trust material
Tenant	Resolves tenant context from authenticated/request context
Gateway	Can receive selected compatibility routes after routing approval
Messaging	Writes outbox and registers shared publisher/processor
Observability	JSON console logs, correlation scope, HTTP tracing
UI	Current composite UI still aligns with monolith DTO/identifiers

Known operational risks

Migration failure can block startup. The health endpoint is process-oriented and does not prove database, broker, or downstream readiness. Employee outbox processing has no confirmed hosted invoker. Gateway and UI cutover require parity/reconciliation evidence. Named on-call rotations and formal SLOs Require confirmation.

Source References

• microservices/src/employee-service/Program.cs
• microservices/src/employee-service/Dockerfile
• microservices/src/gateway-api/Program.cs
• microservices/src/employee-service/Infrastructure/EmployeeDbContext.cs
• microservices/src/shared-kernel/Extensions/ObservabilityExtensions.cs

Related Articles

• Configuration reference
• Health and observability
• Operational checklist

See Also

• Employee technical architecture
• Employee troubleshooting

Keywords

• service operations
• dependencies
• operational risk

Revision Information

• Status: Draft
• Last reviewed: 2026-07-15
• Review cycle: Quarterly