Mastering Microservices Architecture for Scalable and Resilient Systems
COURSE FORMAT & DELIVERY DETAILS Learn at Your Own Pace, From Anywhere, With Complete Confidence
This course is designed for professionals who demand flexibility without sacrificing depth, structure, or career impact. You gain immediate access to a fully self-paced learning journey, engineered to deliver hands-on expertise in microservices architecture with clarity and precision. On-Demand Learning Built for Real Lives
- The course is entirely on-demand, with no fixed schedules or time commitments, allowing you to learn when it suits you best.
- Typical completion takes 12 to 16 weeks with consistent engagement, though many learners report applying core principles within days of starting.
- Lifetime access ensures you can revisit materials anytime, even years from now, with all future updates included at no additional cost.
- Access is available 24/7 from any device, including smartphones and tablets, ensuring seamless learning whether at home, in transit, or at work.
Trusted Certification From a Globally Recognized Authority
Upon successful completion, you will receive a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, an industry-recognized name in professional technical education. This certificate validates your mastery of modern microservices patterns and is respected by engineering leads, hiring managers, and cloud architects across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Employers consistently cite The Art of Service credentials as indicators of practical competence and structured learning discipline. Dedicated Instructor Guidance and Support
You are not learning in isolation. Throughout the course, you will have direct access to expert-led support channels where experienced microservices architects provide feedback, clarify complex topics, and guide implementation decisions. This is not a static collection of content - it's a responsive, insight-rich environment designed to accelerate your understanding and build confidence in real application. Clear, Transparent Pricing - No Surprises
The total cost of the course is presented upfront with no hidden fees. Once you enroll, there are no additional charges, no subscription traps, and no paywalls to unlock essential materials. You get full, unrestricted access to all learning components, tools, templates, and the final certification process included in one straightforward fee. Full Payment Flexibility
We accept major payment methods including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal, ensuring secure and convenient enrollment no matter your location or preferred transaction method. Zero-Risk Enrollment: Satisfied or Refunded
Your confidence is our priority. If you complete the first two modules and feel the course does not meet your expectations for quality, depth, or career relevance, simply let us know within 30 days for a full refund. No questions asked. This is our promise to deliver value, or return your investment. What To Expect After Enrollment
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email acknowledging your enrollment. Your access details and login instructions will be delivered separately once your course materials are fully prepared. This ensures every learner receives a flawless, tested experience from day one. This Course Works - Even If You’re Not Starting From Scratch
Whether you're transitioning from monolithic systems, leading a migration initiative, or designing a greenfield application, this program meets you where you are. The modular structure allows you to skip foundational areas if already familiar, or dive deep into advanced implementation patterns without friction. This works even if: you’ve struggled with fragmented tutorials, found documentation too abstract, or felt lost in the complexity of distributed systems. Our step-by-step method converts ambiguity into clarity, isolating patterns used by top-tier engineering teams at companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify - then adapts them into actionable, project-based learning you can apply immediately. Role-Specific Outcomes You Can Trust
- Software Engineers: Gain the architectural fluency to lead microservices design discussions and own service boundaries with confidence.
- DevOps Engineers: Master deployment, monitoring, and orchestration strategies that drive 99.99% system availability.
- Technical Leads: Learn to evaluate trade-offs across data consistency, service autonomy, and team alignment when structuring microservices at scale.
- Architects: Apply proven domain-driven decomposition techniques, fault tolerance patterns, and resilience testing frameworks trusted in enterprise environments.
Don’t just take our word for it. Testimonial: “I was skeptical after trying other courses that felt theoretical, but this one changed how I design systems. Within three weeks, I proposed a service decomposition that cut latency by 40% in our core platform. The certificate helped me secure a promotion.” – Elena M., Senior Backend Developer, Germany Testimonial: “The structured progression from fundamentals to advanced resilience patterns made all the difference. I used the circuit breaker and saga pattern guides directly in my team’s migration project. My manager called it ‘textbook-perfect implementation.’” – Raj T., Cloud Architect, Singapore You are protected by uncompromising quality, industry-aligned content, and a risk-reversal guarantee. This is not just knowledge transfer - it’s career transformation with measurable ROI.
EXTENSIVE and DETAILED COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1: Foundations of Microservices Architecture - Understanding Monolithic vs. Microservices Architectures
- Evolution of Distributed Systems and Service-Oriented Design
- Principles of Service Autonomy and Decentralized Governance
- Defining Microservices: Size, Scope, and Boundaries
- Business Drivers for Adopting Microservices
- Key Benefits: Scalability, Resilience, and Independent Deployments
- Common Misconceptions and Myths About Microservices
- When Not to Use Microservices: Cost of Complexity
- Team Structure and Conway’s Law in System Design
- Organizational Readiness for Microservices Adoption
- Introduction to Domain-Driven Design Concepts
- Bounded Contexts and Their Role in Service Boundaries
- Ubiquitous Language and Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Event-Driven Thinking in Distributed Systems
- Foundations of API-Centric Communication
- Service Contract Design and Versioning Basics
- Managing Technical Debt in Microservices Ecosystems
- Security Mindset in Decentralized Environments
- Operational Readiness and Observability Foundations
- Setting Realistic Expectations for Migration Projects
Module 2: Core Microservices Design and Patterns - Decomposition Strategies Based on Business Capabilities
- Using Domain-Driven Design to Identify Microservices
- Aggregates and Entity Boundaries in Microservices
- Service Granularity: Fine vs. Coarse-Grained Services
- Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
- Event Sourcing Fundamentals and Use Cases
- Implementing Event-Driven Communication Between Services
- Publish-Subscribe Messaging Patterns
- Point-to-Point vs. Broadcast Communication Trade-offs
- Asynchronous Communication Using Message Queues
- Synchronous Communication with REST and gRPC
- Designing Idempotent Operations for Reliability
- CAP Theorem and Its Implications in Practice
- Eventual Consistency and Data Replication Models
- Service Discovery Mechanisms and Patterns
- Client-Side vs. Server-Side Service Discovery
- Load Balancing Strategies in Dynamic Environments
- API Gateways and Their Role in Request Routing
- Aggregating Responses from Multiple Services
- Handling Cross-Cutting Concerns in API Gateways
Module 3: Data Management in Microservices - Database-per-Service Pattern and Data Encapsulation
- Choosing Between SQL and NoSQL Per Service
- Transaction Management Across Service Boundaries
- Two-Phase Commit vs. Distributed Sagas
- Orchestrated vs. Choreographed Sagas
- Compensating Transactions for Rollback Scenarios
- Implementing Reliable Event Publishing
- Handling Duplicate Messages and Idempotency
- Data Consistency Patterns Using Events
- Shared Database Anti-Pattern and Risks
- Strategies for Data Migration and Syncing
- Eventual Consistency Testing Techniques
- Using Change Data Capture (CDC) for Real-Time Sync
- Data Ownership and Governance Policies
- Privacy and Compliance in Decentralized Data Stores
- Encryption of Data at Rest and in Transit Per Service
- Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning per Service
- Indexing and Query Performance Optimization
- Data Archival and Lifecycle Management
- Event Schema Management and Evolution
Module 4: Communication Protocols and Inter-Service Contracts - RESTful Design with HATEOAS Principles
- HTTP Methods and Status Codes Best Practices
- Designing Resource Hierarchies and URIs
- Request and Response Payload Design
- Using JSON and XML: Trade-offs and Standards
- API Versioning Strategies: URI, Header, Media Type
- gRPC Overview and Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
- Defining Strongly-Typed Service Contracts
- Performance Comparison: REST vs. gRPC
- Streaming Capabilities in gRPC: Unary, Server, Client, Bidirectional
- Message Serialization and Efficiency Considerations
- Service Mesh Integration Readiness
- OpenAPI and Swagger for API Documentation
- AsyncAPI Specification for Event-Driven APIs
- Contract Testing and Consumer-Driven Contracts
- Pact Framework for Ensuring Compatibility
- Testing Interactions Without Coupling Implementations
- Handling Timeouts and Partial Failures in Calls
- Circuit Breaker Introduction and Failure Isolation
- Retry Patterns with Exponential Backoff
Module 5: Fault Tolerance and Resilience Engineering - Principles of Resilient System Design
- Failure Modes in Distributed Systems
- Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern
- State Management in Circuit Breakers: Closed, Open, Half-Open
- Bulkhead Pattern for Resource Isolation
- Thread Pool and Connection Pool Management
- Rate Limiting and Throttling Strategies
- Leaky Bucket and Token Bucket Algorithms
- Retry With Jitter and Bounded Retries
- Health Checks and Liveness Probes
- Readiness and Startup Probes Configuration
- Graceful Degradation Techniques
- Fallback Mechanisms and Default Responses
- Timeout Configuration Per Service Call
- Monitoring Downstream Dependencies
- Latency Budgeting and SLO Enforcement
- Backpressure Handling in High-Load Scenarios
- Distributed Tracing Readiness
- Chaos Engineering Foundations
- Designing for Partial System Failures
Module 6: Deployment, Orchestration, and Lifecycle Management - Containerization Using Docker: Image Creation and Optimization
- Multi-Stage Builds for Smaller, Secure Images
- Best Practices for Dockerfile Design
- Container Registries and Image Tagging Conventions
- Introduction to Kubernetes Architecture
- Pods, Deployments, Services, and Ingress Resources
- Rolling Updates and Canary Deployments
- Blue-Green Deployment Patterns
- Immutable Infrastructure Principles
- Infrastructure as Code Using YAML and Helm
- Job and CronJob Scheduling in Kubernetes
- ConfigMaps and Secrets Management
- Sidecar Containers and Proxy Patterns
- Init Containers for Pre-Startup Tasks
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Based on Metrics
- Custom Metrics and Prometheus Integration
- Resource Requests and Limits for Stable Performance
- Pod Disruption Budgets and High Availability
- Namespace Strategies for Multi-Tenant Environments
- GitOps Workflow and ArgoCD Principles
Module 7: Scaling, Monitoring, and Observability - Metrics Collection Using Prometheus
- Creating Custom Exporters for Application Metrics
- Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs)
- Golden Signals: Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation
- Logging Aggregation with ELK and Fluentd
- Structured Logging and JSON Log Formats
- Correlation IDs for End-to-End Request Tracing
- Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry
- Span Context Propagation Across Services
- Service Maps and Dependency Visualization
- Alerting Rules and Escalation Policies
- Dashboards Using Grafana for Real-Time Insights
- Failure Injection and Root Cause Analysis
- Log Sampling and Cost Optimization
- Performance Baselines and Anomaly Detection
- Capacity Planning and Load Forecasting
- Auto-Scaling Based on Observed Metrics
- Health Endpoint Monitoring and Synthetic Checks
- Observability as a Cross-Cutting Concern
- Cost-Aware Observability in Large Systems
Module 8: Security in Microservices Ecosystems - Zero Trust Security Model Application
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) Configuration
- Service-to-Service Authentication with mTLS
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for Identity
- JWT Token Validation and Claims Management
- Scopes and Permissions per Microservice
- API Key Management and Rotation
- Rate Limiting per Client or Tenant
- Input Validation and Injection Prevention
- Secrets Management Using Vault and KMS
- Static and Dynamic Secret Provisioning
- Principle of Least Privilege Enforcement
- Security Headers and Secure Defaults
- Network Policies and Service Mesh Security
- Audit Logging and Compliance Tracking
- Penetration Testing Roadmaps for Microservices
- Data Masking and PII Protection Strategies
- Security Gates in CI/CD Pipelines
- Threat Modeling Using STRIDE
- Dependency Scanning and SBOM Generation
Module 9: Advanced Microservices Patterns - Service Mesh Architecture with Istio or Linkerd
- Sidecar Proxy Functionality and Benefits
- Traffic Shifting and Splitting with Virtual Services
- Request Routing Based on Headers or Weights
- Canary Analysis Using Metrics and Traces
- Fault Injection for Testing Resilience
- Service Mesh Security and mTLS Automation
- Policy Enforcement and Quota Management
- Backends for Frontends (BFF) Pattern
- Device-Specific API Aggregation
- Strangler Fig Pattern for Legacy Migration
- Incremental Replacement of Monolithic Components
- Feature Toggles and Dynamic Configuration
- Configuration Management with Consul and Etcd
- Leader Election in Distributed Systems
- Idempotency Keys for Reliable Processing
- Event Carrying State Transfer Pattern
- Outbox Pattern for Reliable Publishing
- Snapshot Pattern for State Reconstruction
- Time-Based Event Expiry and Cleanup
Module 10: CI/CD and DevOps for Microservices - CI/CD Pipeline Design for Independent Services
- Separate Build, Test, and Deploy Per Service
- Parallel Pipeline Execution for Speed
- Artifact Repositories and Versioning
- Testing Strategies: Unit, Integration, Contract, End-to-End
- Blue-Green and Canary Testing Environments
- Automated Rollback Triggers Based on Metrics
- Chaos Testing Integration in Staging
- Feature Flag Management and Kill Switches
- Canary Analysis with Prometheus and Grafana
- Git Branching Strategies: Trunk-Based vs. Feature Branches
- Release Coordination Without Coupling
- Post-Deployment Validation Techniques
- Automated Compliance and Security Scans
- Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform
- Environment Parity Across Stages
- Drift Detection and Configuration Drift Recovery
- Build Artifacts and Provenance Tracking
- Reproducible Builds and Deterministic Outputs
- Deployment Safety with Manual Approval Gates
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a Microservices-Based E-Commerce Platform
- Defining Bounded Contexts for Orders, Users, Inventory
- Event Schema Design for Order Fulfillment
- Implementing a Saga for Payment Processing
- Building an API Gateway with Authentication
- Containerizing and Deploying Services on Kubernetes
- Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines for Each Service
- Monitoring the System with Prometheus and Grafana
- Integrating Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Simulating Failures Using Chaos Engineering Tools
- Configuring Autoscaling Based on Load
- Securing All Inter-Service Communications
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control
- Setting Up Alerting and On-Call Procedures
- Conducting a Resilience Review and Risk Assessment
- Writing Runbooks for Common Incidents
- Documenting Architecture Decisions (ADR)
- Creating Operational Playbooks
- Measuring System Maturity Using DORA Metrics
- Presenting Architecture Review and Project Outcomes
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of Key Microservices Concepts and Patterns
- Practice Exercises for Architecture Decision Scenarios
- Case Studies from Enterprise Migration Projects
- Identifying Anti-Patterns in Given Architectures
- Optimizing for Cost, Performance, and Reliability
- Evaluating Trade-Offs in Communication Choices
- Data Consistency Strategy Selection
- Security Posture Assessment in Multi-Service Systems
- Disaster Recovery and Backup Validation
- Scaling Team and System Simultaneously
- Cloud-Native Design Principles and Patterns
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
- Vendor Lock-In Mitigation Strategies
- Open Source Tool Selection and Supportability
- Negotiating Technical Scope in Cross-Team Projects
- Communicating Architecture to Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Preparing for Technical Leadership Interviews
- Building a Professional Portfolio of Work
- How to Showcase Your Certificate on LinkedIn and Resumes
- Final Assessment and Certification Requirements
Module 1: Foundations of Microservices Architecture - Understanding Monolithic vs. Microservices Architectures
- Evolution of Distributed Systems and Service-Oriented Design
- Principles of Service Autonomy and Decentralized Governance
- Defining Microservices: Size, Scope, and Boundaries
- Business Drivers for Adopting Microservices
- Key Benefits: Scalability, Resilience, and Independent Deployments
- Common Misconceptions and Myths About Microservices
- When Not to Use Microservices: Cost of Complexity
- Team Structure and Conway’s Law in System Design
- Organizational Readiness for Microservices Adoption
- Introduction to Domain-Driven Design Concepts
- Bounded Contexts and Their Role in Service Boundaries
- Ubiquitous Language and Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Event-Driven Thinking in Distributed Systems
- Foundations of API-Centric Communication
- Service Contract Design and Versioning Basics
- Managing Technical Debt in Microservices Ecosystems
- Security Mindset in Decentralized Environments
- Operational Readiness and Observability Foundations
- Setting Realistic Expectations for Migration Projects
Module 2: Core Microservices Design and Patterns - Decomposition Strategies Based on Business Capabilities
- Using Domain-Driven Design to Identify Microservices
- Aggregates and Entity Boundaries in Microservices
- Service Granularity: Fine vs. Coarse-Grained Services
- Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
- Event Sourcing Fundamentals and Use Cases
- Implementing Event-Driven Communication Between Services
- Publish-Subscribe Messaging Patterns
- Point-to-Point vs. Broadcast Communication Trade-offs
- Asynchronous Communication Using Message Queues
- Synchronous Communication with REST and gRPC
- Designing Idempotent Operations for Reliability
- CAP Theorem and Its Implications in Practice
- Eventual Consistency and Data Replication Models
- Service Discovery Mechanisms and Patterns
- Client-Side vs. Server-Side Service Discovery
- Load Balancing Strategies in Dynamic Environments
- API Gateways and Their Role in Request Routing
- Aggregating Responses from Multiple Services
- Handling Cross-Cutting Concerns in API Gateways
Module 3: Data Management in Microservices - Database-per-Service Pattern and Data Encapsulation
- Choosing Between SQL and NoSQL Per Service
- Transaction Management Across Service Boundaries
- Two-Phase Commit vs. Distributed Sagas
- Orchestrated vs. Choreographed Sagas
- Compensating Transactions for Rollback Scenarios
- Implementing Reliable Event Publishing
- Handling Duplicate Messages and Idempotency
- Data Consistency Patterns Using Events
- Shared Database Anti-Pattern and Risks
- Strategies for Data Migration and Syncing
- Eventual Consistency Testing Techniques
- Using Change Data Capture (CDC) for Real-Time Sync
- Data Ownership and Governance Policies
- Privacy and Compliance in Decentralized Data Stores
- Encryption of Data at Rest and in Transit Per Service
- Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning per Service
- Indexing and Query Performance Optimization
- Data Archival and Lifecycle Management
- Event Schema Management and Evolution
Module 4: Communication Protocols and Inter-Service Contracts - RESTful Design with HATEOAS Principles
- HTTP Methods and Status Codes Best Practices
- Designing Resource Hierarchies and URIs
- Request and Response Payload Design
- Using JSON and XML: Trade-offs and Standards
- API Versioning Strategies: URI, Header, Media Type
- gRPC Overview and Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
- Defining Strongly-Typed Service Contracts
- Performance Comparison: REST vs. gRPC
- Streaming Capabilities in gRPC: Unary, Server, Client, Bidirectional
- Message Serialization and Efficiency Considerations
- Service Mesh Integration Readiness
- OpenAPI and Swagger for API Documentation
- AsyncAPI Specification for Event-Driven APIs
- Contract Testing and Consumer-Driven Contracts
- Pact Framework for Ensuring Compatibility
- Testing Interactions Without Coupling Implementations
- Handling Timeouts and Partial Failures in Calls
- Circuit Breaker Introduction and Failure Isolation
- Retry Patterns with Exponential Backoff
Module 5: Fault Tolerance and Resilience Engineering - Principles of Resilient System Design
- Failure Modes in Distributed Systems
- Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern
- State Management in Circuit Breakers: Closed, Open, Half-Open
- Bulkhead Pattern for Resource Isolation
- Thread Pool and Connection Pool Management
- Rate Limiting and Throttling Strategies
- Leaky Bucket and Token Bucket Algorithms
- Retry With Jitter and Bounded Retries
- Health Checks and Liveness Probes
- Readiness and Startup Probes Configuration
- Graceful Degradation Techniques
- Fallback Mechanisms and Default Responses
- Timeout Configuration Per Service Call
- Monitoring Downstream Dependencies
- Latency Budgeting and SLO Enforcement
- Backpressure Handling in High-Load Scenarios
- Distributed Tracing Readiness
- Chaos Engineering Foundations
- Designing for Partial System Failures
Module 6: Deployment, Orchestration, and Lifecycle Management - Containerization Using Docker: Image Creation and Optimization
- Multi-Stage Builds for Smaller, Secure Images
- Best Practices for Dockerfile Design
- Container Registries and Image Tagging Conventions
- Introduction to Kubernetes Architecture
- Pods, Deployments, Services, and Ingress Resources
- Rolling Updates and Canary Deployments
- Blue-Green Deployment Patterns
- Immutable Infrastructure Principles
- Infrastructure as Code Using YAML and Helm
- Job and CronJob Scheduling in Kubernetes
- ConfigMaps and Secrets Management
- Sidecar Containers and Proxy Patterns
- Init Containers for Pre-Startup Tasks
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Based on Metrics
- Custom Metrics and Prometheus Integration
- Resource Requests and Limits for Stable Performance
- Pod Disruption Budgets and High Availability
- Namespace Strategies for Multi-Tenant Environments
- GitOps Workflow and ArgoCD Principles
Module 7: Scaling, Monitoring, and Observability - Metrics Collection Using Prometheus
- Creating Custom Exporters for Application Metrics
- Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs)
- Golden Signals: Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation
- Logging Aggregation with ELK and Fluentd
- Structured Logging and JSON Log Formats
- Correlation IDs for End-to-End Request Tracing
- Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry
- Span Context Propagation Across Services
- Service Maps and Dependency Visualization
- Alerting Rules and Escalation Policies
- Dashboards Using Grafana for Real-Time Insights
- Failure Injection and Root Cause Analysis
- Log Sampling and Cost Optimization
- Performance Baselines and Anomaly Detection
- Capacity Planning and Load Forecasting
- Auto-Scaling Based on Observed Metrics
- Health Endpoint Monitoring and Synthetic Checks
- Observability as a Cross-Cutting Concern
- Cost-Aware Observability in Large Systems
Module 8: Security in Microservices Ecosystems - Zero Trust Security Model Application
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) Configuration
- Service-to-Service Authentication with mTLS
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for Identity
- JWT Token Validation and Claims Management
- Scopes and Permissions per Microservice
- API Key Management and Rotation
- Rate Limiting per Client or Tenant
- Input Validation and Injection Prevention
- Secrets Management Using Vault and KMS
- Static and Dynamic Secret Provisioning
- Principle of Least Privilege Enforcement
- Security Headers and Secure Defaults
- Network Policies and Service Mesh Security
- Audit Logging and Compliance Tracking
- Penetration Testing Roadmaps for Microservices
- Data Masking and PII Protection Strategies
- Security Gates in CI/CD Pipelines
- Threat Modeling Using STRIDE
- Dependency Scanning and SBOM Generation
Module 9: Advanced Microservices Patterns - Service Mesh Architecture with Istio or Linkerd
- Sidecar Proxy Functionality and Benefits
- Traffic Shifting and Splitting with Virtual Services
- Request Routing Based on Headers or Weights
- Canary Analysis Using Metrics and Traces
- Fault Injection for Testing Resilience
- Service Mesh Security and mTLS Automation
- Policy Enforcement and Quota Management
- Backends for Frontends (BFF) Pattern
- Device-Specific API Aggregation
- Strangler Fig Pattern for Legacy Migration
- Incremental Replacement of Monolithic Components
- Feature Toggles and Dynamic Configuration
- Configuration Management with Consul and Etcd
- Leader Election in Distributed Systems
- Idempotency Keys for Reliable Processing
- Event Carrying State Transfer Pattern
- Outbox Pattern for Reliable Publishing
- Snapshot Pattern for State Reconstruction
- Time-Based Event Expiry and Cleanup
Module 10: CI/CD and DevOps for Microservices - CI/CD Pipeline Design for Independent Services
- Separate Build, Test, and Deploy Per Service
- Parallel Pipeline Execution for Speed
- Artifact Repositories and Versioning
- Testing Strategies: Unit, Integration, Contract, End-to-End
- Blue-Green and Canary Testing Environments
- Automated Rollback Triggers Based on Metrics
- Chaos Testing Integration in Staging
- Feature Flag Management and Kill Switches
- Canary Analysis with Prometheus and Grafana
- Git Branching Strategies: Trunk-Based vs. Feature Branches
- Release Coordination Without Coupling
- Post-Deployment Validation Techniques
- Automated Compliance and Security Scans
- Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform
- Environment Parity Across Stages
- Drift Detection and Configuration Drift Recovery
- Build Artifacts and Provenance Tracking
- Reproducible Builds and Deterministic Outputs
- Deployment Safety with Manual Approval Gates
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a Microservices-Based E-Commerce Platform
- Defining Bounded Contexts for Orders, Users, Inventory
- Event Schema Design for Order Fulfillment
- Implementing a Saga for Payment Processing
- Building an API Gateway with Authentication
- Containerizing and Deploying Services on Kubernetes
- Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines for Each Service
- Monitoring the System with Prometheus and Grafana
- Integrating Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Simulating Failures Using Chaos Engineering Tools
- Configuring Autoscaling Based on Load
- Securing All Inter-Service Communications
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control
- Setting Up Alerting and On-Call Procedures
- Conducting a Resilience Review and Risk Assessment
- Writing Runbooks for Common Incidents
- Documenting Architecture Decisions (ADR)
- Creating Operational Playbooks
- Measuring System Maturity Using DORA Metrics
- Presenting Architecture Review and Project Outcomes
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of Key Microservices Concepts and Patterns
- Practice Exercises for Architecture Decision Scenarios
- Case Studies from Enterprise Migration Projects
- Identifying Anti-Patterns in Given Architectures
- Optimizing for Cost, Performance, and Reliability
- Evaluating Trade-Offs in Communication Choices
- Data Consistency Strategy Selection
- Security Posture Assessment in Multi-Service Systems
- Disaster Recovery and Backup Validation
- Scaling Team and System Simultaneously
- Cloud-Native Design Principles and Patterns
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
- Vendor Lock-In Mitigation Strategies
- Open Source Tool Selection and Supportability
- Negotiating Technical Scope in Cross-Team Projects
- Communicating Architecture to Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Preparing for Technical Leadership Interviews
- Building a Professional Portfolio of Work
- How to Showcase Your Certificate on LinkedIn and Resumes
- Final Assessment and Certification Requirements
- Decomposition Strategies Based on Business Capabilities
- Using Domain-Driven Design to Identify Microservices
- Aggregates and Entity Boundaries in Microservices
- Service Granularity: Fine vs. Coarse-Grained Services
- Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
- Event Sourcing Fundamentals and Use Cases
- Implementing Event-Driven Communication Between Services
- Publish-Subscribe Messaging Patterns
- Point-to-Point vs. Broadcast Communication Trade-offs
- Asynchronous Communication Using Message Queues
- Synchronous Communication with REST and gRPC
- Designing Idempotent Operations for Reliability
- CAP Theorem and Its Implications in Practice
- Eventual Consistency and Data Replication Models
- Service Discovery Mechanisms and Patterns
- Client-Side vs. Server-Side Service Discovery
- Load Balancing Strategies in Dynamic Environments
- API Gateways and Their Role in Request Routing
- Aggregating Responses from Multiple Services
- Handling Cross-Cutting Concerns in API Gateways
Module 3: Data Management in Microservices - Database-per-Service Pattern and Data Encapsulation
- Choosing Between SQL and NoSQL Per Service
- Transaction Management Across Service Boundaries
- Two-Phase Commit vs. Distributed Sagas
- Orchestrated vs. Choreographed Sagas
- Compensating Transactions for Rollback Scenarios
- Implementing Reliable Event Publishing
- Handling Duplicate Messages and Idempotency
- Data Consistency Patterns Using Events
- Shared Database Anti-Pattern and Risks
- Strategies for Data Migration and Syncing
- Eventual Consistency Testing Techniques
- Using Change Data Capture (CDC) for Real-Time Sync
- Data Ownership and Governance Policies
- Privacy and Compliance in Decentralized Data Stores
- Encryption of Data at Rest and in Transit Per Service
- Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning per Service
- Indexing and Query Performance Optimization
- Data Archival and Lifecycle Management
- Event Schema Management and Evolution
Module 4: Communication Protocols and Inter-Service Contracts - RESTful Design with HATEOAS Principles
- HTTP Methods and Status Codes Best Practices
- Designing Resource Hierarchies and URIs
- Request and Response Payload Design
- Using JSON and XML: Trade-offs and Standards
- API Versioning Strategies: URI, Header, Media Type
- gRPC Overview and Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
- Defining Strongly-Typed Service Contracts
- Performance Comparison: REST vs. gRPC
- Streaming Capabilities in gRPC: Unary, Server, Client, Bidirectional
- Message Serialization and Efficiency Considerations
- Service Mesh Integration Readiness
- OpenAPI and Swagger for API Documentation
- AsyncAPI Specification for Event-Driven APIs
- Contract Testing and Consumer-Driven Contracts
- Pact Framework for Ensuring Compatibility
- Testing Interactions Without Coupling Implementations
- Handling Timeouts and Partial Failures in Calls
- Circuit Breaker Introduction and Failure Isolation
- Retry Patterns with Exponential Backoff
Module 5: Fault Tolerance and Resilience Engineering - Principles of Resilient System Design
- Failure Modes in Distributed Systems
- Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern
- State Management in Circuit Breakers: Closed, Open, Half-Open
- Bulkhead Pattern for Resource Isolation
- Thread Pool and Connection Pool Management
- Rate Limiting and Throttling Strategies
- Leaky Bucket and Token Bucket Algorithms
- Retry With Jitter and Bounded Retries
- Health Checks and Liveness Probes
- Readiness and Startup Probes Configuration
- Graceful Degradation Techniques
- Fallback Mechanisms and Default Responses
- Timeout Configuration Per Service Call
- Monitoring Downstream Dependencies
- Latency Budgeting and SLO Enforcement
- Backpressure Handling in High-Load Scenarios
- Distributed Tracing Readiness
- Chaos Engineering Foundations
- Designing for Partial System Failures
Module 6: Deployment, Orchestration, and Lifecycle Management - Containerization Using Docker: Image Creation and Optimization
- Multi-Stage Builds for Smaller, Secure Images
- Best Practices for Dockerfile Design
- Container Registries and Image Tagging Conventions
- Introduction to Kubernetes Architecture
- Pods, Deployments, Services, and Ingress Resources
- Rolling Updates and Canary Deployments
- Blue-Green Deployment Patterns
- Immutable Infrastructure Principles
- Infrastructure as Code Using YAML and Helm
- Job and CronJob Scheduling in Kubernetes
- ConfigMaps and Secrets Management
- Sidecar Containers and Proxy Patterns
- Init Containers for Pre-Startup Tasks
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Based on Metrics
- Custom Metrics and Prometheus Integration
- Resource Requests and Limits for Stable Performance
- Pod Disruption Budgets and High Availability
- Namespace Strategies for Multi-Tenant Environments
- GitOps Workflow and ArgoCD Principles
Module 7: Scaling, Monitoring, and Observability - Metrics Collection Using Prometheus
- Creating Custom Exporters for Application Metrics
- Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs)
- Golden Signals: Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation
- Logging Aggregation with ELK and Fluentd
- Structured Logging and JSON Log Formats
- Correlation IDs for End-to-End Request Tracing
- Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry
- Span Context Propagation Across Services
- Service Maps and Dependency Visualization
- Alerting Rules and Escalation Policies
- Dashboards Using Grafana for Real-Time Insights
- Failure Injection and Root Cause Analysis
- Log Sampling and Cost Optimization
- Performance Baselines and Anomaly Detection
- Capacity Planning and Load Forecasting
- Auto-Scaling Based on Observed Metrics
- Health Endpoint Monitoring and Synthetic Checks
- Observability as a Cross-Cutting Concern
- Cost-Aware Observability in Large Systems
Module 8: Security in Microservices Ecosystems - Zero Trust Security Model Application
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) Configuration
- Service-to-Service Authentication with mTLS
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for Identity
- JWT Token Validation and Claims Management
- Scopes and Permissions per Microservice
- API Key Management and Rotation
- Rate Limiting per Client or Tenant
- Input Validation and Injection Prevention
- Secrets Management Using Vault and KMS
- Static and Dynamic Secret Provisioning
- Principle of Least Privilege Enforcement
- Security Headers and Secure Defaults
- Network Policies and Service Mesh Security
- Audit Logging and Compliance Tracking
- Penetration Testing Roadmaps for Microservices
- Data Masking and PII Protection Strategies
- Security Gates in CI/CD Pipelines
- Threat Modeling Using STRIDE
- Dependency Scanning and SBOM Generation
Module 9: Advanced Microservices Patterns - Service Mesh Architecture with Istio or Linkerd
- Sidecar Proxy Functionality and Benefits
- Traffic Shifting and Splitting with Virtual Services
- Request Routing Based on Headers or Weights
- Canary Analysis Using Metrics and Traces
- Fault Injection for Testing Resilience
- Service Mesh Security and mTLS Automation
- Policy Enforcement and Quota Management
- Backends for Frontends (BFF) Pattern
- Device-Specific API Aggregation
- Strangler Fig Pattern for Legacy Migration
- Incremental Replacement of Monolithic Components
- Feature Toggles and Dynamic Configuration
- Configuration Management with Consul and Etcd
- Leader Election in Distributed Systems
- Idempotency Keys for Reliable Processing
- Event Carrying State Transfer Pattern
- Outbox Pattern for Reliable Publishing
- Snapshot Pattern for State Reconstruction
- Time-Based Event Expiry and Cleanup
Module 10: CI/CD and DevOps for Microservices - CI/CD Pipeline Design for Independent Services
- Separate Build, Test, and Deploy Per Service
- Parallel Pipeline Execution for Speed
- Artifact Repositories and Versioning
- Testing Strategies: Unit, Integration, Contract, End-to-End
- Blue-Green and Canary Testing Environments
- Automated Rollback Triggers Based on Metrics
- Chaos Testing Integration in Staging
- Feature Flag Management and Kill Switches
- Canary Analysis with Prometheus and Grafana
- Git Branching Strategies: Trunk-Based vs. Feature Branches
- Release Coordination Without Coupling
- Post-Deployment Validation Techniques
- Automated Compliance and Security Scans
- Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform
- Environment Parity Across Stages
- Drift Detection and Configuration Drift Recovery
- Build Artifacts and Provenance Tracking
- Reproducible Builds and Deterministic Outputs
- Deployment Safety with Manual Approval Gates
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a Microservices-Based E-Commerce Platform
- Defining Bounded Contexts for Orders, Users, Inventory
- Event Schema Design for Order Fulfillment
- Implementing a Saga for Payment Processing
- Building an API Gateway with Authentication
- Containerizing and Deploying Services on Kubernetes
- Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines for Each Service
- Monitoring the System with Prometheus and Grafana
- Integrating Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Simulating Failures Using Chaos Engineering Tools
- Configuring Autoscaling Based on Load
- Securing All Inter-Service Communications
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control
- Setting Up Alerting and On-Call Procedures
- Conducting a Resilience Review and Risk Assessment
- Writing Runbooks for Common Incidents
- Documenting Architecture Decisions (ADR)
- Creating Operational Playbooks
- Measuring System Maturity Using DORA Metrics
- Presenting Architecture Review and Project Outcomes
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of Key Microservices Concepts and Patterns
- Practice Exercises for Architecture Decision Scenarios
- Case Studies from Enterprise Migration Projects
- Identifying Anti-Patterns in Given Architectures
- Optimizing for Cost, Performance, and Reliability
- Evaluating Trade-Offs in Communication Choices
- Data Consistency Strategy Selection
- Security Posture Assessment in Multi-Service Systems
- Disaster Recovery and Backup Validation
- Scaling Team and System Simultaneously
- Cloud-Native Design Principles and Patterns
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
- Vendor Lock-In Mitigation Strategies
- Open Source Tool Selection and Supportability
- Negotiating Technical Scope in Cross-Team Projects
- Communicating Architecture to Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Preparing for Technical Leadership Interviews
- Building a Professional Portfolio of Work
- How to Showcase Your Certificate on LinkedIn and Resumes
- Final Assessment and Certification Requirements
- RESTful Design with HATEOAS Principles
- HTTP Methods and Status Codes Best Practices
- Designing Resource Hierarchies and URIs
- Request and Response Payload Design
- Using JSON and XML: Trade-offs and Standards
- API Versioning Strategies: URI, Header, Media Type
- gRPC Overview and Protocol Buffers (protobuf)
- Defining Strongly-Typed Service Contracts
- Performance Comparison: REST vs. gRPC
- Streaming Capabilities in gRPC: Unary, Server, Client, Bidirectional
- Message Serialization and Efficiency Considerations
- Service Mesh Integration Readiness
- OpenAPI and Swagger for API Documentation
- AsyncAPI Specification for Event-Driven APIs
- Contract Testing and Consumer-Driven Contracts
- Pact Framework for Ensuring Compatibility
- Testing Interactions Without Coupling Implementations
- Handling Timeouts and Partial Failures in Calls
- Circuit Breaker Introduction and Failure Isolation
- Retry Patterns with Exponential Backoff
Module 5: Fault Tolerance and Resilience Engineering - Principles of Resilient System Design
- Failure Modes in Distributed Systems
- Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern
- State Management in Circuit Breakers: Closed, Open, Half-Open
- Bulkhead Pattern for Resource Isolation
- Thread Pool and Connection Pool Management
- Rate Limiting and Throttling Strategies
- Leaky Bucket and Token Bucket Algorithms
- Retry With Jitter and Bounded Retries
- Health Checks and Liveness Probes
- Readiness and Startup Probes Configuration
- Graceful Degradation Techniques
- Fallback Mechanisms and Default Responses
- Timeout Configuration Per Service Call
- Monitoring Downstream Dependencies
- Latency Budgeting and SLO Enforcement
- Backpressure Handling in High-Load Scenarios
- Distributed Tracing Readiness
- Chaos Engineering Foundations
- Designing for Partial System Failures
Module 6: Deployment, Orchestration, and Lifecycle Management - Containerization Using Docker: Image Creation and Optimization
- Multi-Stage Builds for Smaller, Secure Images
- Best Practices for Dockerfile Design
- Container Registries and Image Tagging Conventions
- Introduction to Kubernetes Architecture
- Pods, Deployments, Services, and Ingress Resources
- Rolling Updates and Canary Deployments
- Blue-Green Deployment Patterns
- Immutable Infrastructure Principles
- Infrastructure as Code Using YAML and Helm
- Job and CronJob Scheduling in Kubernetes
- ConfigMaps and Secrets Management
- Sidecar Containers and Proxy Patterns
- Init Containers for Pre-Startup Tasks
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Based on Metrics
- Custom Metrics and Prometheus Integration
- Resource Requests and Limits for Stable Performance
- Pod Disruption Budgets and High Availability
- Namespace Strategies for Multi-Tenant Environments
- GitOps Workflow and ArgoCD Principles
Module 7: Scaling, Monitoring, and Observability - Metrics Collection Using Prometheus
- Creating Custom Exporters for Application Metrics
- Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs)
- Golden Signals: Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation
- Logging Aggregation with ELK and Fluentd
- Structured Logging and JSON Log Formats
- Correlation IDs for End-to-End Request Tracing
- Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry
- Span Context Propagation Across Services
- Service Maps and Dependency Visualization
- Alerting Rules and Escalation Policies
- Dashboards Using Grafana for Real-Time Insights
- Failure Injection and Root Cause Analysis
- Log Sampling and Cost Optimization
- Performance Baselines and Anomaly Detection
- Capacity Planning and Load Forecasting
- Auto-Scaling Based on Observed Metrics
- Health Endpoint Monitoring and Synthetic Checks
- Observability as a Cross-Cutting Concern
- Cost-Aware Observability in Large Systems
Module 8: Security in Microservices Ecosystems - Zero Trust Security Model Application
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) Configuration
- Service-to-Service Authentication with mTLS
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for Identity
- JWT Token Validation and Claims Management
- Scopes and Permissions per Microservice
- API Key Management and Rotation
- Rate Limiting per Client or Tenant
- Input Validation and Injection Prevention
- Secrets Management Using Vault and KMS
- Static and Dynamic Secret Provisioning
- Principle of Least Privilege Enforcement
- Security Headers and Secure Defaults
- Network Policies and Service Mesh Security
- Audit Logging and Compliance Tracking
- Penetration Testing Roadmaps for Microservices
- Data Masking and PII Protection Strategies
- Security Gates in CI/CD Pipelines
- Threat Modeling Using STRIDE
- Dependency Scanning and SBOM Generation
Module 9: Advanced Microservices Patterns - Service Mesh Architecture with Istio or Linkerd
- Sidecar Proxy Functionality and Benefits
- Traffic Shifting and Splitting with Virtual Services
- Request Routing Based on Headers or Weights
- Canary Analysis Using Metrics and Traces
- Fault Injection for Testing Resilience
- Service Mesh Security and mTLS Automation
- Policy Enforcement and Quota Management
- Backends for Frontends (BFF) Pattern
- Device-Specific API Aggregation
- Strangler Fig Pattern for Legacy Migration
- Incremental Replacement of Monolithic Components
- Feature Toggles and Dynamic Configuration
- Configuration Management with Consul and Etcd
- Leader Election in Distributed Systems
- Idempotency Keys for Reliable Processing
- Event Carrying State Transfer Pattern
- Outbox Pattern for Reliable Publishing
- Snapshot Pattern for State Reconstruction
- Time-Based Event Expiry and Cleanup
Module 10: CI/CD and DevOps for Microservices - CI/CD Pipeline Design for Independent Services
- Separate Build, Test, and Deploy Per Service
- Parallel Pipeline Execution for Speed
- Artifact Repositories and Versioning
- Testing Strategies: Unit, Integration, Contract, End-to-End
- Blue-Green and Canary Testing Environments
- Automated Rollback Triggers Based on Metrics
- Chaos Testing Integration in Staging
- Feature Flag Management and Kill Switches
- Canary Analysis with Prometheus and Grafana
- Git Branching Strategies: Trunk-Based vs. Feature Branches
- Release Coordination Without Coupling
- Post-Deployment Validation Techniques
- Automated Compliance and Security Scans
- Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform
- Environment Parity Across Stages
- Drift Detection and Configuration Drift Recovery
- Build Artifacts and Provenance Tracking
- Reproducible Builds and Deterministic Outputs
- Deployment Safety with Manual Approval Gates
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a Microservices-Based E-Commerce Platform
- Defining Bounded Contexts for Orders, Users, Inventory
- Event Schema Design for Order Fulfillment
- Implementing a Saga for Payment Processing
- Building an API Gateway with Authentication
- Containerizing and Deploying Services on Kubernetes
- Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines for Each Service
- Monitoring the System with Prometheus and Grafana
- Integrating Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Simulating Failures Using Chaos Engineering Tools
- Configuring Autoscaling Based on Load
- Securing All Inter-Service Communications
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control
- Setting Up Alerting and On-Call Procedures
- Conducting a Resilience Review and Risk Assessment
- Writing Runbooks for Common Incidents
- Documenting Architecture Decisions (ADR)
- Creating Operational Playbooks
- Measuring System Maturity Using DORA Metrics
- Presenting Architecture Review and Project Outcomes
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of Key Microservices Concepts and Patterns
- Practice Exercises for Architecture Decision Scenarios
- Case Studies from Enterprise Migration Projects
- Identifying Anti-Patterns in Given Architectures
- Optimizing for Cost, Performance, and Reliability
- Evaluating Trade-Offs in Communication Choices
- Data Consistency Strategy Selection
- Security Posture Assessment in Multi-Service Systems
- Disaster Recovery and Backup Validation
- Scaling Team and System Simultaneously
- Cloud-Native Design Principles and Patterns
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
- Vendor Lock-In Mitigation Strategies
- Open Source Tool Selection and Supportability
- Negotiating Technical Scope in Cross-Team Projects
- Communicating Architecture to Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Preparing for Technical Leadership Interviews
- Building a Professional Portfolio of Work
- How to Showcase Your Certificate on LinkedIn and Resumes
- Final Assessment and Certification Requirements
- Containerization Using Docker: Image Creation and Optimization
- Multi-Stage Builds for Smaller, Secure Images
- Best Practices for Dockerfile Design
- Container Registries and Image Tagging Conventions
- Introduction to Kubernetes Architecture
- Pods, Deployments, Services, and Ingress Resources
- Rolling Updates and Canary Deployments
- Blue-Green Deployment Patterns
- Immutable Infrastructure Principles
- Infrastructure as Code Using YAML and Helm
- Job and CronJob Scheduling in Kubernetes
- ConfigMaps and Secrets Management
- Sidecar Containers and Proxy Patterns
- Init Containers for Pre-Startup Tasks
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Based on Metrics
- Custom Metrics and Prometheus Integration
- Resource Requests and Limits for Stable Performance
- Pod Disruption Budgets and High Availability
- Namespace Strategies for Multi-Tenant Environments
- GitOps Workflow and ArgoCD Principles
Module 7: Scaling, Monitoring, and Observability - Metrics Collection Using Prometheus
- Creating Custom Exporters for Application Metrics
- Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs)
- Golden Signals: Latency, Traffic, Errors, Saturation
- Logging Aggregation with ELK and Fluentd
- Structured Logging and JSON Log Formats
- Correlation IDs for End-to-End Request Tracing
- Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry
- Span Context Propagation Across Services
- Service Maps and Dependency Visualization
- Alerting Rules and Escalation Policies
- Dashboards Using Grafana for Real-Time Insights
- Failure Injection and Root Cause Analysis
- Log Sampling and Cost Optimization
- Performance Baselines and Anomaly Detection
- Capacity Planning and Load Forecasting
- Auto-Scaling Based on Observed Metrics
- Health Endpoint Monitoring and Synthetic Checks
- Observability as a Cross-Cutting Concern
- Cost-Aware Observability in Large Systems
Module 8: Security in Microservices Ecosystems - Zero Trust Security Model Application
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) Configuration
- Service-to-Service Authentication with mTLS
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for Identity
- JWT Token Validation and Claims Management
- Scopes and Permissions per Microservice
- API Key Management and Rotation
- Rate Limiting per Client or Tenant
- Input Validation and Injection Prevention
- Secrets Management Using Vault and KMS
- Static and Dynamic Secret Provisioning
- Principle of Least Privilege Enforcement
- Security Headers and Secure Defaults
- Network Policies and Service Mesh Security
- Audit Logging and Compliance Tracking
- Penetration Testing Roadmaps for Microservices
- Data Masking and PII Protection Strategies
- Security Gates in CI/CD Pipelines
- Threat Modeling Using STRIDE
- Dependency Scanning and SBOM Generation
Module 9: Advanced Microservices Patterns - Service Mesh Architecture with Istio or Linkerd
- Sidecar Proxy Functionality and Benefits
- Traffic Shifting and Splitting with Virtual Services
- Request Routing Based on Headers or Weights
- Canary Analysis Using Metrics and Traces
- Fault Injection for Testing Resilience
- Service Mesh Security and mTLS Automation
- Policy Enforcement and Quota Management
- Backends for Frontends (BFF) Pattern
- Device-Specific API Aggregation
- Strangler Fig Pattern for Legacy Migration
- Incremental Replacement of Monolithic Components
- Feature Toggles and Dynamic Configuration
- Configuration Management with Consul and Etcd
- Leader Election in Distributed Systems
- Idempotency Keys for Reliable Processing
- Event Carrying State Transfer Pattern
- Outbox Pattern for Reliable Publishing
- Snapshot Pattern for State Reconstruction
- Time-Based Event Expiry and Cleanup
Module 10: CI/CD and DevOps for Microservices - CI/CD Pipeline Design for Independent Services
- Separate Build, Test, and Deploy Per Service
- Parallel Pipeline Execution for Speed
- Artifact Repositories and Versioning
- Testing Strategies: Unit, Integration, Contract, End-to-End
- Blue-Green and Canary Testing Environments
- Automated Rollback Triggers Based on Metrics
- Chaos Testing Integration in Staging
- Feature Flag Management and Kill Switches
- Canary Analysis with Prometheus and Grafana
- Git Branching Strategies: Trunk-Based vs. Feature Branches
- Release Coordination Without Coupling
- Post-Deployment Validation Techniques
- Automated Compliance and Security Scans
- Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform
- Environment Parity Across Stages
- Drift Detection and Configuration Drift Recovery
- Build Artifacts and Provenance Tracking
- Reproducible Builds and Deterministic Outputs
- Deployment Safety with Manual Approval Gates
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a Microservices-Based E-Commerce Platform
- Defining Bounded Contexts for Orders, Users, Inventory
- Event Schema Design for Order Fulfillment
- Implementing a Saga for Payment Processing
- Building an API Gateway with Authentication
- Containerizing and Deploying Services on Kubernetes
- Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines for Each Service
- Monitoring the System with Prometheus and Grafana
- Integrating Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Simulating Failures Using Chaos Engineering Tools
- Configuring Autoscaling Based on Load
- Securing All Inter-Service Communications
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control
- Setting Up Alerting and On-Call Procedures
- Conducting a Resilience Review and Risk Assessment
- Writing Runbooks for Common Incidents
- Documenting Architecture Decisions (ADR)
- Creating Operational Playbooks
- Measuring System Maturity Using DORA Metrics
- Presenting Architecture Review and Project Outcomes
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of Key Microservices Concepts and Patterns
- Practice Exercises for Architecture Decision Scenarios
- Case Studies from Enterprise Migration Projects
- Identifying Anti-Patterns in Given Architectures
- Optimizing for Cost, Performance, and Reliability
- Evaluating Trade-Offs in Communication Choices
- Data Consistency Strategy Selection
- Security Posture Assessment in Multi-Service Systems
- Disaster Recovery and Backup Validation
- Scaling Team and System Simultaneously
- Cloud-Native Design Principles and Patterns
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
- Vendor Lock-In Mitigation Strategies
- Open Source Tool Selection and Supportability
- Negotiating Technical Scope in Cross-Team Projects
- Communicating Architecture to Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Preparing for Technical Leadership Interviews
- Building a Professional Portfolio of Work
- How to Showcase Your Certificate on LinkedIn and Resumes
- Final Assessment and Certification Requirements
- Zero Trust Security Model Application
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) Configuration
- Service-to-Service Authentication with mTLS
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for Identity
- JWT Token Validation and Claims Management
- Scopes and Permissions per Microservice
- API Key Management and Rotation
- Rate Limiting per Client or Tenant
- Input Validation and Injection Prevention
- Secrets Management Using Vault and KMS
- Static and Dynamic Secret Provisioning
- Principle of Least Privilege Enforcement
- Security Headers and Secure Defaults
- Network Policies and Service Mesh Security
- Audit Logging and Compliance Tracking
- Penetration Testing Roadmaps for Microservices
- Data Masking and PII Protection Strategies
- Security Gates in CI/CD Pipelines
- Threat Modeling Using STRIDE
- Dependency Scanning and SBOM Generation
Module 9: Advanced Microservices Patterns - Service Mesh Architecture with Istio or Linkerd
- Sidecar Proxy Functionality and Benefits
- Traffic Shifting and Splitting with Virtual Services
- Request Routing Based on Headers or Weights
- Canary Analysis Using Metrics and Traces
- Fault Injection for Testing Resilience
- Service Mesh Security and mTLS Automation
- Policy Enforcement and Quota Management
- Backends for Frontends (BFF) Pattern
- Device-Specific API Aggregation
- Strangler Fig Pattern for Legacy Migration
- Incremental Replacement of Monolithic Components
- Feature Toggles and Dynamic Configuration
- Configuration Management with Consul and Etcd
- Leader Election in Distributed Systems
- Idempotency Keys for Reliable Processing
- Event Carrying State Transfer Pattern
- Outbox Pattern for Reliable Publishing
- Snapshot Pattern for State Reconstruction
- Time-Based Event Expiry and Cleanup
Module 10: CI/CD and DevOps for Microservices - CI/CD Pipeline Design for Independent Services
- Separate Build, Test, and Deploy Per Service
- Parallel Pipeline Execution for Speed
- Artifact Repositories and Versioning
- Testing Strategies: Unit, Integration, Contract, End-to-End
- Blue-Green and Canary Testing Environments
- Automated Rollback Triggers Based on Metrics
- Chaos Testing Integration in Staging
- Feature Flag Management and Kill Switches
- Canary Analysis with Prometheus and Grafana
- Git Branching Strategies: Trunk-Based vs. Feature Branches
- Release Coordination Without Coupling
- Post-Deployment Validation Techniques
- Automated Compliance and Security Scans
- Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform
- Environment Parity Across Stages
- Drift Detection and Configuration Drift Recovery
- Build Artifacts and Provenance Tracking
- Reproducible Builds and Deterministic Outputs
- Deployment Safety with Manual Approval Gates
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a Microservices-Based E-Commerce Platform
- Defining Bounded Contexts for Orders, Users, Inventory
- Event Schema Design for Order Fulfillment
- Implementing a Saga for Payment Processing
- Building an API Gateway with Authentication
- Containerizing and Deploying Services on Kubernetes
- Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines for Each Service
- Monitoring the System with Prometheus and Grafana
- Integrating Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Simulating Failures Using Chaos Engineering Tools
- Configuring Autoscaling Based on Load
- Securing All Inter-Service Communications
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control
- Setting Up Alerting and On-Call Procedures
- Conducting a Resilience Review and Risk Assessment
- Writing Runbooks for Common Incidents
- Documenting Architecture Decisions (ADR)
- Creating Operational Playbooks
- Measuring System Maturity Using DORA Metrics
- Presenting Architecture Review and Project Outcomes
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of Key Microservices Concepts and Patterns
- Practice Exercises for Architecture Decision Scenarios
- Case Studies from Enterprise Migration Projects
- Identifying Anti-Patterns in Given Architectures
- Optimizing for Cost, Performance, and Reliability
- Evaluating Trade-Offs in Communication Choices
- Data Consistency Strategy Selection
- Security Posture Assessment in Multi-Service Systems
- Disaster Recovery and Backup Validation
- Scaling Team and System Simultaneously
- Cloud-Native Design Principles and Patterns
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
- Vendor Lock-In Mitigation Strategies
- Open Source Tool Selection and Supportability
- Negotiating Technical Scope in Cross-Team Projects
- Communicating Architecture to Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Preparing for Technical Leadership Interviews
- Building a Professional Portfolio of Work
- How to Showcase Your Certificate on LinkedIn and Resumes
- Final Assessment and Certification Requirements
- CI/CD Pipeline Design for Independent Services
- Separate Build, Test, and Deploy Per Service
- Parallel Pipeline Execution for Speed
- Artifact Repositories and Versioning
- Testing Strategies: Unit, Integration, Contract, End-to-End
- Blue-Green and Canary Testing Environments
- Automated Rollback Triggers Based on Metrics
- Chaos Testing Integration in Staging
- Feature Flag Management and Kill Switches
- Canary Analysis with Prometheus and Grafana
- Git Branching Strategies: Trunk-Based vs. Feature Branches
- Release Coordination Without Coupling
- Post-Deployment Validation Techniques
- Automated Compliance and Security Scans
- Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform
- Environment Parity Across Stages
- Drift Detection and Configuration Drift Recovery
- Build Artifacts and Provenance Tracking
- Reproducible Builds and Deterministic Outputs
- Deployment Safety with Manual Approval Gates
Module 11: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a Microservices-Based E-Commerce Platform
- Defining Bounded Contexts for Orders, Users, Inventory
- Event Schema Design for Order Fulfillment
- Implementing a Saga for Payment Processing
- Building an API Gateway with Authentication
- Containerizing and Deploying Services on Kubernetes
- Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines for Each Service
- Monitoring the System with Prometheus and Grafana
- Integrating Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Simulating Failures Using Chaos Engineering Tools
- Configuring Autoscaling Based on Load
- Securing All Inter-Service Communications
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control
- Setting Up Alerting and On-Call Procedures
- Conducting a Resilience Review and Risk Assessment
- Writing Runbooks for Common Incidents
- Documenting Architecture Decisions (ADR)
- Creating Operational Playbooks
- Measuring System Maturity Using DORA Metrics
- Presenting Architecture Review and Project Outcomes
Module 12: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Review of Key Microservices Concepts and Patterns
- Practice Exercises for Architecture Decision Scenarios
- Case Studies from Enterprise Migration Projects
- Identifying Anti-Patterns in Given Architectures
- Optimizing for Cost, Performance, and Reliability
- Evaluating Trade-Offs in Communication Choices
- Data Consistency Strategy Selection
- Security Posture Assessment in Multi-Service Systems
- Disaster Recovery and Backup Validation
- Scaling Team and System Simultaneously
- Cloud-Native Design Principles and Patterns
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
- Vendor Lock-In Mitigation Strategies
- Open Source Tool Selection and Supportability
- Negotiating Technical Scope in Cross-Team Projects
- Communicating Architecture to Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Preparing for Technical Leadership Interviews
- Building a Professional Portfolio of Work
- How to Showcase Your Certificate on LinkedIn and Resumes
- Final Assessment and Certification Requirements
- Review of Key Microservices Concepts and Patterns
- Practice Exercises for Architecture Decision Scenarios
- Case Studies from Enterprise Migration Projects
- Identifying Anti-Patterns in Given Architectures
- Optimizing for Cost, Performance, and Reliability
- Evaluating Trade-Offs in Communication Choices
- Data Consistency Strategy Selection
- Security Posture Assessment in Multi-Service Systems
- Disaster Recovery and Backup Validation
- Scaling Team and System Simultaneously
- Cloud-Native Design Principles and Patterns
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
- Vendor Lock-In Mitigation Strategies
- Open Source Tool Selection and Supportability
- Negotiating Technical Scope in Cross-Team Projects
- Communicating Architecture to Non-Technical Stakeholders
- Preparing for Technical Leadership Interviews
- Building a Professional Portfolio of Work
- How to Showcase Your Certificate on LinkedIn and Resumes
- Final Assessment and Certification Requirements