ACME-5004: Task for Notification Service reliability improvement 04
Date: 2026-05-11 Type: Task Priority: P0 Service: Notification Service Owner: Engagement Platform GitHub References: GH-5004, GH-5005 API References: API-NOTIFICATION-01, API-NOTIFICATION-02, API-NOTIFICATION-03, API-NOTIFICATION-04
Business Context
Acme Commerce depends on the Notification Service to protect customer trust during high-volume shopping periods. This ticket captures engineering work needed after operational reviews found risk from stale cache entries surviving a blue-green release.
Scope
- Review service contract behavior against API-NOTIFICATION-01.
- Update dashboards and alerts owned by Engagement Platform.
- Coordinate rollout with the teams that operate Authentication Service, Checkout Service, Billing Service, Inventory Service, and Notification Service.
- Link implementation work to GitHub items GH-5004, GH-5005.
Definition of Done
- Tests cover nominal, timeout, replay, and malformed payload scenarios.
- Runbook steps are updated and validated in staging.
- Incident review owners can cite this ticket as remediation evidence.