The Flying Book — GitOps Microservices Platform

الكتاب الطائر (The Flying Book) is a microservices platform built less to ship a product and more to have a real system to operate — something with enough moving parts that GitOps, service boundaries, and observability all matter.

Architecture

• FastAPI services behind a Kong API gateway
• PostgreSQL per service, no shared database
• Redis for caching and session state
• Argo CD syncing manifests from a dedicated gitops repo
• Stripe Connect for payments, with Paymob planned as a second-phase option for the Egyptian market

Repo layout

The project is split across four repos under one GitHub organization — app, infra, gitops, and web — so that application code, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment state each have their own history and review process, the way they would on a real team.

Status

Actively in progress — this write-up will get an update once the observability stack (Falco + detection rules layered on top of Prometheus/Grafana) is wired into this cluster specifically.