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Deep Dive: Microservices Architecture

Gain an in-depth understanding of microservices architecture, covering service discovery, communication patterns, event-driven design, and scaling.

James Eastham

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4h 18m82 lessons9 chaptersDeep Dive

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About this course

Microservices Architecture is one of the most popular software architectures. It is the de facto choice for any big company, and knowing how to create a system using it is crucial for any software developer who wants to work at a big company. However, it is a very complex topic with many nuances, edge cases, and caveats. In this course, AWS Solution Architect James Eastham will use the knowledge he gained building microservices for Amazon Web Services to teach you how to create an entire microservices architecture system. This course is both theory and code-heavy, with many diagrams and detailed explanations for every decision made. Join James on this journey and master Microservices Architecture today.

curriculum

Course curriculum

4h 18m9 sections

Welcome

01:23Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

02:08Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

03:57Free preview

Getting the most from this course

03:43Free preview

Introducing the Sample Application

03:34

How big is a microservice?

03:54

The current code-base

08:19

Your first microservice

05:32

Integrating your first microservice

02:54

Introducing integration tests

00:38

API First Design

07:33

Mocking microservice integrations

01:59

Run your microservices

03:55

Section Recap

02:47

Independent Testability

03:15

Defining the different types of tests

03:11

Unit testing a microservice

04:29

Integration testing a microservice

07:27

Contract testing inter-service communication

02:52

Break a contact, test the test

05:38

End to tests, good or bad?

07:02

Performance testing your service

05:01

Load testing your service

03:41

Section recap

02:30

Module Introduction

03:10

gRPC for inter-service communication

01:39

Deploying new services

01:12

Is a microservice a single process?

02:38

Your first gRPC microservice

02:19

Integration test your new service

03:42

Implement a gRPC client

01:36

Mocking gRPC for integration tests

04:09

End to end tests with gRPC

02:30

Dealing with failure in gRPC

03:47

Dealing with failure in REST

04:09

An Introduction to Service Discovery

02:34

Service Discovery with Consul

09:18

The Problem with Synchronous Communication

03:47

An Introduction to Asynchronous Communication

02:57

Technology Choices for Async Communication

02:01

Shared Code for Event Communication

00:38

Event Schemas and the CloudEvents Specification

01:12

Defining event subscribers

01:18

Publishing your first event

01:53

Consuling your first event

03:07

Asynchronous communication in action

01:40

Integration test with events

03:37

Libraries for message driven systems

00:47

Fault-tolerance in event driven systems

05:08

Implementing Idempotency

03:04

Asynchronous Communication Recap

01:12

Caching

08:50

Section Recap

01:16

The Strangler Fig Pattern for decomposition

04:59

Configure Nginx as a reverse proxy

02:51

Nginx in action

00:48

Breaking out the orders API

01:41

Breaking out inter-module communication

01:43

An event-first approach to decomposition

01:55

Handling events inside your monolith

02:28

Data Persistence during a migration

01:51

Monolith to microservices recap

02:38

Microservices architecture in action

01:11

Section Recap

01:25

Introduction to secure microservices

03:19

User Login for ASP.NET Microservices

04:47

Generating authentication tokens on user login

01:19

Users Authentication in Action

05:32

Using JWT claims inside your application

03:12

Integration testing secure microservices

04:07

Methods of Service to service authentication

04:08

Implementing service to service authentication

03:18

Section Recap

02:00

Introduction to scaling microservices

00:59

Platform engineering for deployment pipelines

03:55

Standardising deployment pipelines

02:13

Service blueprints for getting started

01:01

Discoverability in large-scale microservice architectures

01:32

Auto-generate documentation for async API’s

05:07

A Brief word on Backstage.IO

00:24

Considerations of microservices at scale

02:53

Course recap

01:21

reviews

What learners are saying about this course

What I liked

quite practical and a lot of code to review/reflect later

What I learned

backstage.io and in principle whole "Microservices at scale" section

What I liked

Great course, complementary to the first one in this series, it really helped to see code, and hear about real life examples again

What I learned

To go for microservices ONLY when we need to, not by default

instructors

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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