Gather requirements

When creating a new microservice, you need to decide what pattern your microservice will fall under. You can find more documentation for a given pattern at the respective link.

• Create a derivate media from an existing media. Some examples of this pattern:
  • Create a thumbnail JPG from a TIFF
  • Extract OCR text from a PDF or image
  • Generate an audio or video derivative
• Index a Drupal entity into some other system. Some examples of this pattern:
  • Index Drupal node metadata in blazegraph
  • Index Drupal node metadata in fedora
• Something more complex
  • aggregating all children images of a paged content item into a single PDF
  • Adding a PDF coverpage to scholarly works, and the coverpage includes metadata from the parent node