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Microservices Foundations

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Explore the basic concepts of microservices. Get the foundational knowledge you need to determine if this architectural model is the right fit for you and your team.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you need to know
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
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Frank P Moley III

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