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Power BI Fundamentals - Create visualizations and dashboards from scratch
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This course examines synchronous and asynchronous communication in microservice systems, focusing on their tradeoffs in scalability, availability, observability, and failure handling. It covers messaging patterns, CQRS, Event Sourcing, transactional outbox, Sagas, delivery guarantees, and strategies for gradually migrating to asynchronous architectures.
Syllabus
Intro
Synchronous vs Asynchronous System
Why go from one to the other?
Trading consistency for availability
CAP Theorem in microservices
Messages and Queues
Asynchronous Message Patterns
Fire and Forget (Notification)
Request/Response
Distributed Log
Command Query Responsibility Segregat
Event Sourcing
Delivery Guarantees
Transactional Outbox
Successful Saga
Compensatory Transactions
Messaging Technologies
Backpressure
Error Handling
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