Introduction to Microservices Architecture Training

• The technical training has been developed for an audience of experienced programmers, developers, software engineers, and DevOps practitioners.

• 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 in the cloud

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

• Learn about popular technologies that enable the development, deployment, and support of microservices

Chapter 5: Decomposing the Monolith

• Understand monolithic decomposition as an approach towards application modernization
• Review successful decomposition patterns
• Understand helpful practices when decomposing a monolithic application

Chapter 6: Deploying and Maintaining Microservices

• Explore the intersection of DevOps and microservices
• Learn to 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