ACME-4003: Story for Inventory Service reliability improvement 03
Date: 2026-05-20 Type: Story Priority: P2 Service: Inventory Service Owner: Supply Platform GitHub References: GH-4003, GH-4004 API References: API-INVENTORY-01, API-INVENTORY-02, API-INVENTORY-03, API-INVENTORY-04
Business Context
Acme Commerce depends on the Inventory Service to protect customer trust during high-volume shopping periods. This ticket captures engineering work needed after operational reviews found risk from background job lag after batch import exceeded expected cardinality.
Scope
- Review service contract behavior against API-INVENTORY-04.
- Update dashboards and alerts owned by Supply 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-4003, GH-4004.
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.