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Microservices Architecture: Design Patterns & Principles Specialization

Packt

Microservices Architecture: Design Patterns & Principles Specialization

Master Microservices Design Patterns & Principles.

Learn to design scalable and resilient microservices with modern architecture principles.

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Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Understand key principles of microservices architecture and design patterns.

  • Explore techniques to decompose monolithic systems into scalable microservices.

  • Learn how to handle microservices communications using APIs, message queues, and more.

  • Implement best practices for scalability, resilience, and system observability in distributed systems.

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Specialization - 3 course series

What you'll learn

  • Master monolithic architecture and design scalable applications with key principles like KISS, YAGNI, and DRY.

  • Learn how to decompose monolithic systems into microservices for enhanced flexibility and scalability.

  • Understand the concepts of vertical and horizontal scaling and apply them to optimize application performance.

  • Gain hands-on experience with building, coding, and scaling real-world systems like e-commerce applications.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Software Architecture
Category: Scalability
Category: Maintainability
Category: Microservices
Category: Software Design
Category: Functional Requirement
Category: Business Logic
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: Code Reusability
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Application Design
Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Systems Design
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Systems Architecture
Category: Software Design Patterns
Microservices Design, Communication, and Data Handling

Microservices Design, Communication, and Data Handling

Course 2, 11 hours

What you'll learn

  • Master the fundamentals of microservices communication, including synchronous, asynchronous, RESTful APIs, and gRPC.

  • Learn to implement API Gateways and patterns like BFF to optimize communication in microservices architectures.

  • Understand advanced data management techniques, such as CQRS, event sourcing, and database sharding.

  • Gain practical skills in handling microservices issues like service-to-service communication, and database bottlenecks,

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microservices
Category: Scalability
Category: Data Management
Category: Data Persistence
Category: Database Management
Category: Distributed Computing
Category: Restful API
Category: API Gateway
Category: API Design
Category: Event-Driven Programming
Category: Databases
Category: GraphQL
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Software Design
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Data Architecture

What you'll learn

  • Master the SAGA pattern and its implementation in distributed transactions.

  • Learn how to design event-driven microservices with real-time event processing.

  • Understand how to deploy microservices with zero downtime using containers and orchestration tools.

  • Implement advanced resilience, observability, and monitoring practices to ensure system stability.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microservices
Category: Event-Driven Programming
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Scalability
Category: Distributed Computing
Category: CI/CD
Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Real Time Data
Category: Data Integrity
Category: Transaction Processing
Category: Containerization
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Docker (Software)
Category: Continuous Integration
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Continuous Deployment
Category: Amazon Web Services

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