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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

Exercise: Load Balancing Strategies

Distributed Tracing

Exercise: Distributed Tracing

Centralized Logging Strategies

Metrics, Health Checks, and Monitoring

Exercise: Metrics and Monitoring

Service-to-Service Authentication

Secrets Management Across Services

Deployment Strategies

Configuration Management and Feature Flags

Exercise: Configuration and Feature Flags

Testing Microservices

Netflix Microservices Architecture

Uber's Domain-Oriented Microservices

Amazon's Two-Pizza Teams and Service Ownership

Monolith-to-Microservices Migration

Common Microservices Interview

Microservices Anti-Patterns

Microservices

Welcome

Course Roadmap
Join the Community

Microservices Foundations

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

Service Decomposition

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

Inter-Service Communication

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication
REST in Microservices
gRPC and Protocol Buffers
GraphQL and Schema Federation
Message Queues
Event Streaming with Kafka
Event-Driven Architecture Patterns
Choreography vs Orchestration
Exercise: Choreography vs Orchestration

Data Management

Database-Per-Service Pattern
Polyglot Persistence
The Distributed Transaction Problem
Saga Pattern
Exercise: Saga Pattern
Event Sourcing
Exercise: Event Sourcing
CQRS
Exercise: CQRS
The Outbox Pattern and CDC
Exercise: The Outbox Pattern
Handling Eventual Consistency
Exercise: Eventual Consistency

Resilience and Fault Tolerance

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

Gateway and Discovery

Service Discovery
Exercise: Service Discovery
API Gateway Pattern
Exercise: API Gateway and Rate Limiting
Backend for Frontend (BFF)
Service Mesh
Load Balancing Strategies
Exercise: Load Balancing Strategies

Observability and Security

Distributed Tracing
Exercise: Distributed Tracing
Centralized Logging Strategies
Metrics, Health Checks, and Monitoring
Exercise: Metrics and Monitoring
Service-to-Service Authentication
Secrets Management Across Services
Deployment Strategies
Configuration Management and Feature Flags
Exercise: Configuration and Feature Flags
Testing Microservices

Case Studies

Netflix Microservices Architecture
Uber's Domain-Oriented Microservices
Amazon's Two-Pizza Teams and Service Ownership
Monolith-to-Microservices Migration
Common Microservices Interview
Microservices Anti-Patterns

Course Roadmap

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