Course Roadmap
01
Microservices Foundations
02
Service Decomposition
01
Domain-Driven Design Essentials
IntermediateHigh
02
Service Boundaries
IntermediateHigh
03
Service Granularity
IntermediateHigh
04
Decomposing a Monolith
IntermediateHigh
05
Strangler Fig Migration
IntermediateHigh
06
Decomposition Anti-Patterns
IntermediateMedium
07
Exercise: Decomposition Anti-Patterns
IntermediateMedium
08
Business Capability vs Subdomain Decomposition
IntermediateMedium
03
Inter-Service Communication
01
Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication
BeginnerHigh
02
REST in Microservices
BeginnerHigh
03
gRPC and Protocol Buffers
IntermediateHigh
04
GraphQL and Schema Federation
IntermediateMedium
05
Message Queues
IntermediateHigh
06
Event Streaming with Kafka
IntermediateHigh
07
Event-Driven Architecture Patterns
AdvancedHigh
08
Choreography vs Orchestration
IntermediateHigh
09
Exercise: Choreography vs Orchestration
IntermediateMedium
04
Data Management
01
Database-Per-Service Pattern
IntermediateHigh
02
Polyglot Persistence
IntermediateMedium
03
The Distributed Transaction Problem
AdvancedHigh
04
Saga Pattern
AdvancedHigh
05
Exercise: Saga Pattern
AdvancedHigh
06
Event Sourcing
AdvancedMedium
07
Exercise: Event Sourcing
AdvancedMedium
08
CQRS
AdvancedMedium
09
Exercise: CQRS
AdvancedMedium
10
The Outbox Pattern and CDC
AdvancedHigh
11
Exercise: The Outbox Pattern
AdvancedMedium
12
Handling Eventual Consistency
AdvancedHigh
13
Exercise: Eventual Consistency
AdvancedMedium
05
Resilience and Fault Tolerance
01
Failure Modes in Distributed Systems
IntermediateHigh
02
Timeouts, Retries, and Exponential Backoff
IntermediateHigh
03
Exercise: Timeouts, Retries, and Backoff
IntermediateMedium
04
Circuit Breaker Pattern
IntermediateHigh
05
Exercise: Circuit Breaker
IntermediateHigh
06
Bulkhead Pattern
AdvancedMedium
07
Exercise: Bulkhead Pattern
AdvancedMedium
08
Cascading Failures and How to Prevent Them
AdvancedHigh
09
Graceful Degradation and Fallbacks
IntermediateMedium
06
Gateway and Discovery
01
Service Discovery
IntermediateHigh
02
Exercise: Service Discovery
IntermediateMedium
03
API Gateway Pattern
IntermediateHigh
04
Exercise: API Gateway and Rate Limiting
IntermediateMedium
05
Backend for Frontend (BFF)
IntermediateMedium
06
Service Mesh
AdvancedMedium
07
Load Balancing Strategies
IntermediateHigh
08
Exercise: Load Balancing Strategies
IntermediateMedium
07
Observability and Security
01
Distributed Tracing
IntermediateHigh
02
Exercise: Distributed Tracing
IntermediateMedium
03
Centralized Logging Strategies
IntermediateMedium
04
Metrics, Health Checks, and Monitoring
IntermediateHigh
05
Exercise: Metrics and Monitoring
IntermediateMedium
06
Service-to-Service Authentication
AdvancedMedium
07
Secrets Management Across Services
IntermediateMedium
08
Deployment Strategies
IntermediateHigh
09
Configuration Management and Feature Flags
IntermediateMedium
10
Exercise: Configuration and Feature Flags
IntermediateLow
11
Testing Microservices
IntermediateHigh
08
Case Studies
01
Netflix Microservices Architecture
AdvancedHigh
02
Uber's Domain-Oriented Microservices
AdvancedHigh
03
Amazon's Two-Pizza Teams and Service Ownership
IntermediateMedium
04
Monolith-to-Microservices Migration
AdvancedHigh
05
Common Microservices Interview
IntermediateHigh
06
Microservices Anti-Patterns
IntermediateHigh