
Explore why microservices replace monolithic apps to enable cloud-native, agile updates and faster software releases. Learn the building blocks, benefits, challenges, and a case study of microservices architecture.
Explore microservices as the solution for adapting legacy enterprise applications to cloud-native architectures. Understand the business case behind cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS, and FaaS, and why microservices underpin cloud-native apps.
Compare monolithic and microservices in cloud contexts using an airline reservation example to explain API gateway, application logic, and data store. Explore advantages, challenges, and Netflix case study.
Explore traditional monolithic, enterprise-scale applications built from backend components and real-time data sources, and trace the shift toward distributed architectures powering global services like Uber and Netflix.
Define a monolithic application using an airline ticketing system, where one server, shared code, and a centralized database create interconnected modules.
Monolithic architectures create long, risky release cycles and downtime due to end-to-end testing and full redeploys, while microservices enable faster, frequent updates through continuous delivery.
See how monolithic architectures hinder scaling as teams grow, and how defining clear module boundaries—ui, booking, payment, and rating—enables independent, scalable development in a microservices approach.
Explore scalability challenges in monolithic apps and contrast vertical scaling with horizontal scaling. Emphasize breaking into smaller components and running them in containers for focused, cloud-native scaling.
Compare monolithic architecture's usefulness for small projects with its drawbacks for large, cloud-based systems, and introduce microservices as a faster, elastic alternative for quicker feature releases.
Define microservices as a standalone, decoupled architecture that breaks a large application into small, single-function services that communicate via well-defined rest APIs.
Explore how a micro-service works as a defined black box with an API gateway, application logic, and its own data store, and communicates via rest-based APIs.
Explore how the microservice architecture treats applications as independently deployable small modular services on a spectrum, each with a unique role, communicating via an API to form an end-to-end system.
Design microservices as small, single-domain components that act as black boxes with boundaries and APIs, enabling loosely coupled, independently upgradable services, while teams stay small, echoing the two-pizza box idea.
Organize software around business capabilities using microservices, forming cross-functional teams that own each service’s full lifecycle and a small, autonomous product with UI, data, and logic.
Frame each microservice as an internal product with its own roadmap, linking to business requirements and continuous evolution, while adopting the you build, you run it DevOps model for production.
Examine smart endpoints and dumb pipes in microservices, contrasting request–response with an observer pattern using a message broker. Producers publish to topics; consumers receive notifications automatically.
Independently developed and deployed microservices enable parallel development and simpler deployments by decoupling modules with clear business boundaries and interfaces.
Explore how microservices enable frequent, faster delivery by decoupling teams, using APIs for stable releases, and implementing CI/CD pipelines to continuously deploy service-specific updates.
Discover how microservices empower autonomous teams to pick the best language and data store for each service, replacing centralized monoliths with decentralized, flexible architectures.
Learn how microservices enable granular scaling by dedicating resources to individual services, leveraging cloud-native elasticity, containers, and quickly spinning off additional instances to improve isolation and resiliency.
Explore the key challenges of microservices, including architectural complexity, distributed architecture, inter-service communication, service discovery, and monitoring for resiliency.
Explore how Netflix migrated from a monolithic Javaweb architecture with a centralized Oracle database to a microservices approach with self-contained services behind an edge layer and API gateways.
Explore how microservices transform software architecture by decoupling services into an API gateway, business logic, and data store, enabling cloud-native, scalable, and maintainable applications.
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DATA IS THE NEW GOLD. It is gold for companies that can harness the power of technologies and use it while transforming their business models into the digital age and becoming much more data-driven. It is an amazing journey fueled with new technologies, but we need to remember that data by itself is just one part of the equation.
What about the complex software around it? That is supposed to do something useful with the data. To be able to interface with many data sources, store massive data volumes, provide a great user interface, and automatically analyze, and find useful patterns.
Software is the Engine, and data is the Fuel.
Until recently, many enterprise-level applications were designed, developed, and maintained as one giant monolithic application. With a once in a year software release cycle, maybe two times in a year. Every small update requires building, testing, and deploying all application modules as one package.
Today more than ever, this traditional development approach is not good enough. It is not supporting the required agility of a fast-changing business landscape. Software updates should be released and deployed in weeks, days, and even hours.
MICROSERVICES is a new innovative development style, already being used by companies like Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and others. Micro-services are the building blocks for creating cloud-native applications, and therefore we will see more companies following this direction.
This training is designed to provide you with a solid theoretical understanding of the micro-services concept.
The challenges with the old-school development style
The industry definition of micro-services and the building blocks of a single micro-service
Then we will be able to move to the macro level and talk about the concept of a microservices architecture
What are the key benefits of this approach?
Review some interesting case studies
Would you like to join the Microservices Revolution?