ACME-1008: Task for Authentication Service reliability improvement 08

Date: 2025-09-27 Type: Task Priority: P0 Service: Authentication Service Owner: Identity Platform GitHub References: GH-1008, GH-1009 API References: API-AUTHENTICATION-01, API-AUTHENTICATION-02, API-AUTHENTICATION-03, API-AUTHENTICATION-04

Business Context

Acme Commerce depends on the Authentication Service to protect customer trust during high-volume shopping periods. This ticket captures engineering work needed after operational reviews found risk from partial deploy where only half of the pods received new configuration.

Scope

• Review service contract behavior against API-AUTHENTICATION-01.
• Update dashboards and alerts owned by Identity 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-1008, GH-1009.

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.