Introduction to Microservices Architecture Training

This introduction to Microservices training course explains the benefits of microservices architecture and provides hands-on experience in the tools most popular for designing, building, monitoring, and maintaining microservices.

Introduction to Microservices Architecture Training Benefits

• In this Microservices Architecture Training, you will learn how to: 

  • Identify the characteristics of popular microservices and understand the design differences. 
  • Decompose a monolithic application on a single server into a containerized application on multiple cloud instances. 
  • Build a simple single-purpose serverless application. 
  • Expose an Application Program Interface for the application. 
  • Review various approaches to infrastructure used in deploying microservices. 
  • Monitor and maintain microservices in large ecosystems and the cloud. 

Introduction to Microservices Architecture Course Outline

Chapter 1: The Emergence of Microservices Architecture

• Explore the ideal software development practice
• Learn how a fine-grained Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can help to achieve the ideal
• Learn how Microservices attempts to achieve the ideal

Chapter 2: Microservice Design Principles

• Designing small microservices
• Designing independent microservices
• Designing resilient microservices

Chapter 3: Integrating Microservices

• Understand design goals when integrating microservices
• Explore effective message formats and lightweight inter-service communication approaches
• Review the pros and cons of various service communication patterns

Chapter 4: Microservice Technologies

• Enable the development, deployment, and support of microservices using popular technologies

Chapter 5: Decomposing the Monolith

• Using monolithic decomposition as an approach toward application modernization 
• Review successful decomposition patterns 
• Decompose a monolithic application using helpful practices 

Chapter 6: Deploying and Maintaining Microservices

• Explore the intersection of DevOps and microservices 
• Leverage virtual, cloud, and containerized environments for microservice deployment 
• Discover how to monitor a microservices environment and take appropriate action to enable scaling or react to system faults