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Food Delivery Platform Architecture
A Swiggy/Zomato-style food delivery platform: customer, restaurant and rider apps, and the services that match orders, riders and payments.
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What this diagram shows
- Three apps for customers, restaurants and delivery partners
- Dispatch service matches riders using live locations
- Order events drive every status update in real time
Prompt used
A food delivery platform: customers order in a mobile app, restaurants accept orders in a partner app, riders use a delivery app. Services: restaurant and menu service, order service, payment service with an external payment gateway, dispatch service that assigns riders using live GPS locations stored in Redis, ETA service, and a notification service. Order events flow through Kafka to push real-time updates.
Mermaid code
C4Container
title Food Delivery Platform
Person(customer, "Customer", "Orders food")
Person(restaurant, "Restaurant", "Prepares orders")
Person(rider, "Delivery Partner", "Delivers orders")
System_Boundary(fd, "Food Delivery Platform") {
Container(capp, "Customer App", "React Native", "Browse and order")
Container(rapp, "Restaurant App", "Android", "Accept and prepare")
Container(dapp, "Rider App", "Android", "Pickups and drops")
Container(order, "Order Service", "Go", "Orders and status")
Container(menu, "Menu Service", "Java", "Restaurants and menus")
Container(dispatch, "Dispatch Service", "Go", "Rider assignment")
ContainerDb(geo, "Live Locations", "Redis", "Rider GPS")
ContainerQueue(kafka, "Order Events", "Kafka", "Status changes")
}
System_Ext(pay, "Payment Gateway", "UPI, cards, wallets")
Rel(customer, capp, "Uses")
Rel(restaurant, rapp, "Uses")
Rel(rider, dapp, "Uses")
Rel(capp, menu, "Browses")
Rel(capp, order, "Places order")
Rel(order, pay, "Charges")
Rel(order, kafka, "Publishes")
Rel(kafka, rapp, "New order")
Rel(kafka, dispatch, "Ready for pickup")
Rel(dapp, geo, "Updates location")
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