Microservices Architecture Course

Learn how to evolve enterprise software projects from a Monolithic to a Microservices Architecture

Integrate multiple architectural patterns and practices for designing reliable, scalable and maintainable applications, in any environment

Overview

The Microservices Architecture is a modern enterprise software architectural pattern, characterized by high maintainability, scalability and resilience. It has been implemented by many of the largest and most successful companies in the world - including Netflix, Amazon, Uber, and eBay.

Our Microservices Architecture course provides the knowledge required to understand the main enterprise software project architectures (Monolithic and Microservices), the benefits and drawbacks of each model and the processes and patterns used to migrate from a Monolithic to a Microservices Architecture.

Objectives

The main objectives of the Microservices Architecture course are:

Learning an overview of the aspects and recommended practices for planning, designing and architecting a Microservices Architecture
Learning the architectural patterns and practices used throughout the entire transition and development phases
Learning the patterns and practices used to monitor, troubleshoot and maintain a Microservices Architecture

Duration and Schedule

The standard course duration is 5 days, with 6 or 7 hours of teaching each day. If possible, we highly recommend a longer duration, to allow more time for customized hands-on work (based on the project needs), discussions, and analysis.

The scheduling per day:

Day 1: Microservices and Monolithic Architectures overviews, migrating from a Monolithic Architecture

Days 2-4: The Microservices Architecture development and infrastructure patterns
Day 5+: Hands-on workshop, on the most useful topics chosen by the participants

The participants can choose to have hands-on sessions between each topic they find especially useful.

Sessions scheduling:

Each topic will be presented in one or more hours, depending on its complexity, the resulting Q&A discussions and the participants’ choice of hands-on work
We will take a break approximately every 50 minutes. Depending on their complexity and discussions, some sessions may be postponed for the next day. We intend to present each topic very thoroughly - and not rush through or skim over essential material.

Course Schedule

Day 1

Enterprise architectures overview, Microservices vs Monolithic architecture

From Monoliths to Microservices
Microservices architectural patterns
Migrating to a Microservices Architecture

Day 2

Inter-Process Communication

Overview of the Inter-Process Communication in a Microservices Architecture
Synchronous and asynchronous communication - patterns, technologies, trade-offs

Day 3

Application patterns

Database architecture - shared and individual
CAP theorem, consistency types (strong, eventual & causal)
Maintaining data consistency
Data querying
Transactional messaging patterns

Day 4

Testing and application infrastructure patterns

Testing, from unit to end-to-end testing
Application infrastructure patterns
Deployment patterns

Day 5

Hands-on workshop, on the topics chosen by the participants

Customized hands-on workshop
Course feedback

Target Audience

The course is designed both for participants who are new to the concept of Microservices and those who want to improve their knowledge and skills. The main targeted audience, in terms of job role and profile:

Managers & Business Professionals - Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Solution Designers and Business Analysts
- Attendance is highly recommended on the first day in particular, when we present the differences and tradeoffs between the Monolithic and the Microservices Architectures
Technical Roles - Software and Solution Architects, Tech Leads, Developers, QAs

Course participants will want to:

Understand a high- and mid-level overview of the Microservices Architecture - alternatives, patterns, challenges, trade-offs, implementation and integration patterns
Understand the process of migrating a Monolithic application to a Microservices Architecture
Understand the multiple architectural patterns that can be used to design, architect and build a maintainable, reliable and scalable Microservices Architecture

Understanding Your Needs

Prerequisites

Here are the minimal prerequisites required to attend the Microservices Architecture course:

Basic enterprise software development literacy: familiarity with basic enterprise software development concepts and practices; no specific programming or technical skills are required
Understanding of basic programming concepts
- Needed to understand the multiple architectural patterns and their trade-offs
- The course is not addressed to a particular programming language, with examples presented in Java, C# and Python
Curiosity about technology: an interest in learning how the Microservices Architecture improves the maintainability, scalability, deployability and resilience of their applications
Willingness to learn: openness to exploring new concepts, architectural patterns and their trade-offs

Testimonials

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Sorin, Crossover

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Working with Bogdan is really inspiring and I always learn something new from his training and coaching sessions. All the training sessions are well-structured, use examples and employ hands-on components. What I enjoyed most during his training sessions is that they made me eager to learn more and to extend my knowledge. And it's not hard to do, thanks to the documentation that Bogdan provides for further reading.

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I have participated in several training sessions held by Bogdan, including Java 8, Maven, CI & CD, Git and Spring. Every time we were thrilled to discover the information and best practices described, especially as he exemplified them with many hands-on examples. Furthermore, there were a few things present in each session that defined Bogdan's approach, namely, professionalism, vast knowledge and experience, innovative solutions, a great personality and a sense of humor.

Lavinia, Elysian

I am the self-learning type; I usually get bored at every course/training, very quickly. With this course, it was not the case. I payed attention ~95% of the time, which is very rare for me.

Ionuț, Nokia

I was pleasantly surprised by this course, being probably much more than other courses that can be found online. The presentation is very good, the materials are well structured and prepared, with many examples. Moreover, I consider the context information to be welcome, some of it was not very "settled" for me, such as the information about the application architecture, etc. Another plus regarding the training and the trainer is the fact that I managed to pay attention approximately 99% of the time, which I find amazing.

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