Microservices Architecture: Design Patterns & Principles

Packt via Coursera Specialization

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This specialization features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the specialization. In this specialization, you will explore microservices architecture, learning how to design scalable, fault-tolerant systems. You'll begin with foundational design principles and evolve from monolithic architectures to modern microservices solutions. The hands-on, problem-solving approach allows you to apply what you learn through real-world projects, covering key topics like service communication, database management, and deployment strategies. The course provides a comprehensive guide to microservices, focusing on topics like distributed transactions, event-driven architecture, and containerization with tools like Kubernetes. As you move through each module, you’ll gain practical experience and understand how to scale, manage, and deploy microservices effectively. This specialization is ideal for software developers and IT professionals with prior experience in object-oriented programming and web applications. It is designed for intermediate-level learners. By the end of the specialization, you will be able to design and implement microservices architectures, manage data across services, and deploy scalable solutions using industry best practices.

Syllabus

Course 1: Foundations of Software Architecture and Monolithic Systems
Course 2: Microservices Architecture and Communication Patterns
Course 3: Advanced Microservices: Transactions, Deployment, and Reliability

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This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Master the advanced engineering practices required to build resilient, scalable, and production-ready microservices systems. This course equips you with the expertise to handle distributed transactions, optimize performance with caching, and implement robust deployment strategies using containers and orchestration tools. You’ll gain a deep understanding of reliability patterns that ensure high availability in modern cloud-native architectures. You’ll begin by exploring distributed transaction challenges and solutions, including ACID principles, SAGA patterns, compensating transactions, and the transactional outbox with CDC. Through real-world design and coding exercises, you’ll learn to maintain consistency across services while avoiding common pitfalls like dual writes and performance bottlenecks. Next, the course transitions into distributed caching strategies and performance optimization, followed by a comprehensive journey into containerization with Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes. You’ll implement CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and modern deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary releases. The final modules focus on resilience, observability, and serverless architectures. You’ll apply patterns like circuit breakers, retries, and bulkheads, and integrate monitoring tools such as Prometheus and distributed tracing systems to ensure system reliability. This course is ideal for software engineers, backend developers, DevOps professionals, and architects with prior microservices knowledge. Familiarity with APIs, cloud fundamentals, and basic containerization is recommended. The difficulty level is advanced. By the end of the course, you will be able to design, implement, and deploy fault-tolerant microservices architectures using distributed transaction patterns, container orchestration, observability tools, and serverless technologies.
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This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course will guide you through the essentials of microservices architecture and communication patterns. You will explore key communication strategies, such as synchronous and asynchronous communication, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and gRPC. The course dives into advanced patterns like API Gateways, service-to-service communication, and event-driven architectures, preparing you to design and implement scalable microservices systems. You will also delve into data management within microservices, learning about database patterns like Database-per-Service, polyglot persistence, and CQRS. The course offers practical applications, including handling real-world problems like network traffic issues, database bottlenecks, and long-running operations in microservices. This course is ideal for software developers and engineers who have a basic understanding of system architecture. It’s perfect for those wanting to dive into microservices and their complex communication and data management patterns. By the end, you’ll be ready to build robust microservices systems with efficient communication and data handling strategies. By the end of the course, you will be able to design and implement microservices using various communication patterns, select appropriate databases for microservices, and optimize data management techniques, including CQRS and Event Sourcing.
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This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course will immerse you in the core concepts of software architecture with a focus on monolithic systems. You will learn about the evolution of architecture, from traditional designs to modern microservices systems, and explore the design principles that influence these systems. Through real-world examples and problem-solving scenarios, you will design, code, and evaluate software systems to develop a solid understanding of architecture patterns. Starting with the foundations of monolithic architecture, you will be introduced to key design principles such as KISS, YAGNI, and DRY. These will be applied in building real-world applications, including an e-commerce platform. You’ll also dive into scalable systems, learning vertical and horizontal scaling techniques and their applications. The course is intended for software developers and engineers who want to deepen their understanding of monolithic and microservices architectures. A basic knowledge of programming is required, making this course ideal for those looking to expand their architectural skills and work on scalable systems. By the end of the course, you will be able to design, code, and scale monolithic systems, implement modular monoliths, and apply microservices architecture. You will also be able to optimize system performance using scalability strategies and improve system flexibility.