Introduction to Microservices Architecture Training

Course Outline

This introduction to Microservices training course explains the benefits of microservices architecture and provides hands-on experience in the tools most popular for designing, building, monitoring, and maintaining microservices.

Introduction to Microservices Architecture Training Benefits

In this Microservices Architecture Training, you will learn how to:
- Identify the characteristics of popular microservices and understand the design differences.
- Decompose a monolithic application on a single server into a containerized application on multiple cloud instances.
- Build a simple single-purpose serverless application.
- Expose an Application Program Interface for the application.
- Review various approaches to infrastructure used in deploying microservices.
- Monitor and maintain microservices in large ecosystems and the cloud.

Introduction to Microservices Architecture Course Outline

Chapter 1: The Emergence of Microservices Architecture

Explore the ideal software development practice
Learn how a fine-grained Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can help to achieve the ideal
Learn how Microservices attempts to achieve the ideal

Chapter 2: Microservice Design Principles

Designing small microservices
Designing independent microservices
Designing resilient microservices

Chapter 3: Integrating Microservices

Understand design goals when integrating microservices
Explore effective message formats and lightweight inter-service communication approaches
Review the pros and cons of various service communication patterns

Chapter 4: Microservice Technologies

Enable the development, deployment, and support of microservices using popular technologies

Chapter 5: Decomposing the Monolith

Using monolithic decomposition as an approach toward application modernization
Review successful decomposition patterns
Decompose a monolithic application using helpful practices

Chapter 6: Deploying and Maintaining Microservices

Explore the intersection of DevOps and microservices
Leverage virtual, cloud, and containerized environments for microservice deployment
Discover how to monitor a microservices environment and take appropriate action to enable scaling or react to system faults