Getting Started: Microservices Architecture

Get started with Microservices Architecture with AWS Solution Architect James Eastham

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.

Course Curriculum

5h 20m 10 sections
Welcome
00:51 Free preview
What will you learn in this course?
01:21 Free preview
Who is the course for and prerequisites
01:38 Free 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

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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