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Getting Started: Microservices Architecture

Learn the basics of microservices architecture in this course. Understand the key concepts, design patterns, and techniques for building scalable, modular systems.

James Eastham

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5h 21m65 lessons9 chaptersGetting Started

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About this course

Embark on a journey with ‘Getting Started with Microservices Architecture’ meticulously crafted by James Eastham, a Solution Architect at AWS. This course is your gateway to mastering the intricacies of microservices architecture, a pivotal skill in today’s tech landscape. James, with his extensive real-world experience, delves deep into the fundamentals of microservices, ensuring a solid foundation for learners of all levels. This course is designed not only to impart theoretical knowledge but also to equip you with practical skills, essential for navigating the complexities of modern software development. Whether you’re a budding developer, an aspiring architect, or a seasoned professional, this course offers valuable insights into the modular world of microservices. By the end of this course, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of how microservices operate, how they enhance scalability and flexibility, and why they’re a preferred choice for contemporary applications. Join James Eastham in this enlightening journey, and unlock the door to a new realm of architectural possibilities.

curriculum

Course curriculum

5h 21m9 sections

Welcome

00:51Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

01:21Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

01:38Free preview

The Monolith

05:27

Service Oriented Architecture

03:08

Microservices

03:42

Finding Microservice Boundaries

05:26

Key Concepts of Microservices

05:15

The Good and the Bad of Microservices

02:20

The Fallacies of Distributed Computing

04:32

Are microservices right for you?

04:14

Coupling

04:17

Understanding microservice boundaries

05:12

Sharing Data

04:18

Microservice Communication - Synchronous

02:35

Microservice Communication - Asynchronous

03:12

Dealing with Consistency

03:53

Microservice Deployment

03:28

Code sharing

04:39

Service Discovery

03:47

Optimize for rate of change

02:50

3.11How big is a microservice?

03:32

Enterprise Integration Patterns

03:41

Shared Data

05:45

Request/Response

12:38

Publish/Subscribe

06:56

Point to Point Integrations

06:18

Event Driven Architecture

10:01

Streaming & Batch Processing

05:56

Distributed transactions

10:47

Choosing the right communication method

05:22

Integrating with external services

07:49

API First Design

03:32

Everything fails all the time

04:33

Handling failures in microservices

04:10

Timeouts and retries

04:05

Circuit breakers

07:07

Bulkheads

05:00

Understanding idempotency

03:20

Vertical vs horizontal scaling

04:42

Caching

05:57

Chaos engineering and planning for failure

03:51

Optimize for feedback loops

03:31

Types of testing

04:38

Unit testing

05:15

Integration Testing

08:45

End to end tests, yes or no?

07:13

Testing in production

03:53

6.7

03:52

Containers or serverless?

05:18

The Basics of CI/CD

05:24

Deploy vs release

03:48

Canaries & Blue Green Deployments

07:27

Feature flagging

05:44

Observability vs monitoring

03:07

Distributed tracing

07:14

Log aggregation

05:02

Metrics

04:40

Alerting

05:23

Service Level Objectives

05:16

Conways Law

05:26

The Human Side of Microservices

03:21

Team Topologies

06:43

What about the frontend?

02:40

Shift left and autonomy

05:18

reviews

What learners are saying about this course

What I liked

The pace and the structure of the course is perfect, everything is clear, i really enjoyed it

What I learned

Can't pinpoint just one, overall great course for explaining what microservices are, and the tradeoffs and real life examples for multiple areas

What I liked

The people and organization part and in depth explanation of conways law.

What I learned

Different means of integrations and when microservices are useful

What I liked

I liked the modules Testing, and Shipping. I will be back to rewatch this course

What I learned

A useful topic was about using Canary pipeline to test in production

What I liked

The theory is presented in an accessible way. I really like how certain concepts are explained while simultaneously drawing diagrams.

What I learned

I would love to implement distributed tracing in my project the way it was explained in the course.

instructors

Meet your instructor

James Eastham

James Eastham

James Eastham is a Serverless Developer Advocate at Datadog and a Microsoft MVP. He has over 10 years of software experience at all layers of the software development process and has spoken at conferences all over the world. He answered phones in front-line support, administered databases, and built SSIS packages, as well as developed cloud-native backends with serverless technologies. He spent time at AWS working with some of the biggest companies on the planet, migrating workloads from data centers into the cloud and modernizing in the process. James produces content on YouTube focused on architecting and building applications with serverless technologies using .NET and Rust. He also has a strong interest in and expertise in event-driven architecture and building more loosely coupled systems.

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Do I get a certificate?

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Are subtitles available?

Yes, all lessons have English subtitles.

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