ACME-1016: Story for Authentication Service reliability improvement 16
Date: 2025-12-24 Type: Story Priority: P0 Service: Authentication Service Owner: Identity Platform GitHub References: GH-1016, GH-1017 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 rate-limit exhaustion against a third-party dependency.
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-1016, GH-1017.
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.