Course Outline
Part I: Domain Modelling and Design
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Core principles of Domain Driven Design.
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Using event storming for domain discovery.
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Defining bounded contexts and context mapping.
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Data ownership and the database-per-service principle.
Part II: Contracts and Communication
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Designing effective contracts.
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API versioning and evolution strategies.
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Synchronous communication patterns.
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Asynchronous communication patterns.
Part III: Building Microservices
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Implementing clean architecture structures.
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Dependency management and security considerations.
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Introduction to Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime).
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Managing service-to-service communication.
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State management techniques.
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Pub/sub messaging patterns.
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Managing secrets and configuration.
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Leveraging built-in telemetry for observability.
Part IV: Testing Strategies
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Heartbeat tests.
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End-to-end testing.
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Service-level testing.
Part V: Infrastructure
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Infrastructure as Code using Bicep.
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Containers and orchestration (Kubernetes / Azure Container Apps).
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Infrastructure pipelines and deployment workflows.
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Storage and database services.
Part VI: Deployment
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CI/CD pipelines.
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Deployment rings.
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Feature flags.
Part VII: Observability
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Centralised logging.
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Distributed tracing.
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Metrics and dashboards.
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Monitoring and alerting systems.
Part VIII: Resilience and Disaster Recovery
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Health probes and readiness checks.
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Strategies for handling compute failures.
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Infrastructure failure strategies.
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Service-level failure handling.
Requirements
- Solid programming proficiency in at least one backend language (such as C#, Java, Python, or similar).
- Fundamental understanding of REST APIs and HTTP protocols.
- Comfort with Git and standard version control workflows.
- Basic familiarity with a cloud platform (e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP), including experience deploying an app or navigating the portal.
Target Audience
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Development teams in the process of migrating from monolithic systems to microservices.
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Software architects designing complex distributed systems.
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Teams already operating microservices who aim to enhance design, scalability, and reliability.
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Technical professionals seeking a practical, hands-on approach to cloud-native architecture.
Testimonials (4)
The instructor was knowledgeable about the course topic and also other related topics, and was able to answer our questions, or even make a note of questions he didn't immediately know the answer to and got back to use later.
Abe Sabbagh - Enbridge
Course - Advanced RabbitMQ - 2 Days
Possibility to perform independent exercises in the training environment.
Tomasz - PKO Zycie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen S.A.
Course - Kafka for Administrators
the technical preparation of teachers
Giorgio - Asystel-BDF S.p.A.
Course - Creating a Service Mesh with Istio and Kubernetes
Very practical examples. The trainer has tried to keep a pace where everybody is able to go with even though the group was quite inhomogeneous regarding the knowhow. He has provided a lot of support to basically everybody who asked for it :)
