Microservices Foundations Online Class

Description

This course covers the fundamental concepts of microservices to assist you in determining whether this architectural model is a good fit for you and your team. Frank Moley begins the course by briefly discussing how microservices fit into the history of software architecture, as well as some of the other notable patterns that have emerged in recent years. 

Syllabus :

1. About Microservices

• History of service-based architectures
• The monolithic application
• Services-oriented architecture
• Microservices: The new kid on the block
• Microservices: Solver of problems but not the silver bullet
• Microservices and cloud native

 

2. Microservices Core Concepts

• The services
• The communication dance
• Distribution and scale
• The dangers of latency and gridlock
• Bounded context
• Data domains as a service boundary
• No ACID, only BASE
• The API layer

 

3. Microservices Advanced Concepts

• Asynchronous communications
• Logging and tracing in a microservices architecture
• Continuous delivery as a requirement
• Hybrid architectures: Hierarchy and service-based

 

4. Making Architecture Choices

• Design considerations
• The tradeoffs
• An argument for edge services
• Embracing DevOps

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