Course Roadmap

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What Microservices Actually Are

Monolith vs Microservices

When to Adopt Microservices (and When Not To)

SOA vs Microservices vs Service-Based Architecture

Conway's Law and Team Topology

Domain-Driven Design Essentials

Service Boundaries

Service Granularity

Decomposing a Monolith

Strangler Fig Migration

Decomposition Anti-Patterns

Exercise: Decomposition Anti-Patterns

Business Capability vs Subdomain Decomposition

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication

REST in Microservices

gRPC and Protocol Buffers

GraphQL and Schema Federation

Event Streaming with Kafka

Event-Driven Architecture Patterns

Choreography vs Orchestration

Exercise: Choreography vs Orchestration

Database-Per-Service Pattern

Polyglot Persistence

The Distributed Transaction Problem

Exercise: Saga Pattern

Exercise: Event Sourcing

The Outbox Pattern and CDC

Exercise: The Outbox Pattern

Handling Eventual Consistency

Exercise: Eventual Consistency

Failure Modes in Distributed Systems

Timeouts, Retries, and Exponential Backoff

Exercise: Timeouts, Retries, and Backoff

Circuit Breaker Pattern

Exercise: Circuit Breaker

Bulkhead Pattern

Exercise: Bulkhead Pattern

Cascading Failures and How to Prevent Them

Graceful Degradation and Fallbacks

Service Discovery

Exercise: Service Discovery

API Gateway Pattern

Exercise: API Gateway and Rate Limiting

Backend for Frontend (BFF)

Load Balancing Strategies

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