Microservices with Node.js: Complete Beginner to Advanced

Name: Microservices with Node.js: Complete Beginner to Advanced
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A complete guide to microservices architecture with Node.js

Created byTarun (tkssharma) Sharma

Last updated 4/2026

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What you'll learn

Understand microservices architecture principles and decide when to use microservices versus monolithic or SOA architectures
Build standalone and distributed microservices using Node.js, Express, and NestJS
Build asynchronous and event-driven systems using message brokers such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
Build observable microservices with centralized logging, metrics, and distributed tracing

Course content

4 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 8m total length

Introduction to the Microservices7:29
Discover why and how to adopt microservices, compare monoliths and service design, and learn architecture patterns for communication, api gateways, and database per service using nodejs, nestjs, and docker.
Microservices Mastery with Nodejs4:04
master microservices with nodejs and nestjs, enabling independent deployment, scalability, and resilience through twelve-factor practices, clear service boundaries, and event-driven patterns.
Understanding Microservices Architecture4:23
Define microservices as small independent services with their own data and processes that communicate via well defined APIs. Contrast them with monoliths to show independent deployment and team-based scaling.
Microservices Evolution from SOA, Monolith TO Microservices3:17
Trace the evolution from monolith and soa to microservices, highlighting decentralized, cloud-native scalability, independent deployment, cross-functional teams, and the migration path to avoid the distributed monolith trap.
Microservices - When to User and Adopt2:31
Evaluate microservices for team size, domain complexity, and scaling needs to balance flexibility against architecture overhead. Start with a modular monolith and gradually extract microservices as use cases justify them.
Challenges in Microservices design and development3:33
Explore the downsides of microservices, including architectural and operational complexity, data consistency challenges, and higher infrastructure costs. Apply resilience patterns, retries, timeouts, and saga with DevOps automation and orchestration.
Microservices - Key characteristics of Microservices1:49
Microservices are small, focused units targeting a single business capability with clear boundaries, independent deployment, and event-driven communication, no shared database, enabling observability and automated build and deployment.

Monolith to Microservices, HOW and WHY6:25
Decide when to migrate from a monolith to microservices, focusing on scalability, autonomy, and deployment speed, and use the strangler fig pattern to migrate features with clear business boundaries.
Monolith to Microservices with Demo Example6:58
Demonstrate migrating a monolith to microservices by splitting an ecommerce app into user, product, orders, payment, and notification services behind a central api gateway.
Monolith to Microservices- Migration Strategy6:42
Plan monolith to microservice migration by mapping modules and dependencies, and decoupling data with loose references. Use event-driven communication, sagas, and domain-based services for scalable, decoupled architecture.
Microservices- Domain Driven Design6:20
Examine domain driven design as a mindset for migrating from a monolith to microservices. Identify domains and bounded contexts, and align software with business terms and unambiguous language.
Why DDD for Microservices - Domain Driven Design5:29
Explore domain driven design for microservices by defining bounded contexts, aligning with business capabilities, and modeling with entities, value objects, aggregates, domain events, and anti-corruption layer for reliable inter-service communication.
Strangler Fig Pattern - Migration step by step3:49
Apply the strangler fig pattern to migrate from a monolith to microservices by isolating a piece and routing traffic to the new service while the legacy coexists.

Arch Pattern - Microservices API Gateway pattern3:20
Position an API gateway as a single entry point for web, IoT, and mobile clients, routing to the user, order, and product services while handling authentication, rate limiting, and caching.
Arch Pattern - Microservices CQRS and Event Sourcing3:28
Explore event sourcing and CQRS, where commands write to a write model and events update read models, enabling scalable, accurate state through an event store and projections.
Arch Pattern - Microservices SAGA Pattern2:44
Explore the saga pattern for managing distributed transactions across services in an event-driven architecture. Use compensating actions to roll back inventory and cancel orders when payments fail, ensuring eventual consistency.
Arch Pattern - Microservices Service Discovery and Registry Pattern2:48
This lecture explains service discovery as a pattern that lets microservices find and communicate with each other dynamically via a service registry, enabling load balancing and avoiding hardcoded addresses.
Arch Pattern - Microservices (Database Per Service) Pattern2:08
This architecture pattern assigns each microservice its own private database, enabling loose coupling, technology freedom, and independent scaling and deployment, with events and an API gateway for cross-service data sharing.
Arch Pattern - Microservices (Externalise Config) Pattern1:57
Externalize configurations for microservices using secret managers or environment variables, fetching credentials on the fly during deployment. This aligns with the 12-factor approach and avoids hard-coded secrets.
Arch Pattern - Microservices EDS Event Driven Arch Pattern4:11
Explore event driven microservices architecture, where order created event decouples services like inventory and payment, using topics and brokers such as SNS/SQS and Kafka with dead letter queues for reliability.
Arch Pattern - Microservices (Container Deployment) Pattern3:15
Explore container deployment architecture for microservices, showing how to package apps into docker images, push to registries, and update services with blue-green or canary strategies behind a load balancer.
Arch Pattern - Microservices (Serverless Architecture AWS) Pattern2:53
Explore serverless microservices on AWS, using API gateway, lambda functions, and DynamoDB to build event-driven architectures with S3, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions.

What is Microservices and why we need it6:34
Learn how microservices break a monolith into small, independent services with own databases and deployment, connected via an API gateway. Explore synchronous and asynchronous communication and event-driven patterns.
Monolith to Microservice Migration3:20
Decompose a monolith into microservices by isolating modules like auth and user, using a triangular fig pattern with a facade proxy to migrate piece by piece while keeping legacy services.
Microservice Arch Patterns8:11
Explore key microservice architecture patterns, including api gateway, event driven, service mesh, and sagas. Learn how choosing the right pattern enables scalability, resilience, and maintainability across cloud and container architectures.
Microservice Communication Patterns7:48
Discover core microservice communication patterns, from synchronous HTTP REST, gRPC, and GraphQL to asynchronous Kafka, SNS/SQS, and event-driven flows with WebSocket, SSE, and EventBridge.
Microservice Architecture Patterns12:52
Explore API gateway patterns with authentication, routing, caching, and proxying; learn backend for frontend, GraphQL gateways with Apollo Federation, polyglot databases, and event-driven CQRS and event sourcing in microservices.

Requirements

Intermediate JavaScript or TypeScript knowledge (ES6+, async/await, TypeScript basics)
Basic Node.js and Express experience (building REST APIs)

Description

Master the fundamentals of building scalable and resilient microservices using Node.js, NestJS, and Express. This course focuses on core architecture concepts with selective hands-on implementation in Node.js to help you understand how real-world distributed systems are designed and built.

Designed for backend developers who want to move beyond monoliths, this course covers essential microservices patterns, communication strategies, data management approaches, and production best practices — without overwhelming complexity.

What You’ll Learn

Architecture Fundamentals

Core microservices principles and trade-offs
Designing service boundaries using DDD concepts
Monolith to microservices migration (Strangler approach)
12-Factor App basics for cloud-native systems

Communication Patterns

Synchronous communication with REST
Intro to gRPC concepts
Asynchronous messaging fundamentals (RabbitMQ/Kafka concepts)
API Gateway and basic BFF pattern

Data & Consistency

Database-per-service concept
Saga pattern theory
CQRS and Event Sourcing fundamentals
Managing distributed data consistency

Resilience & Security

Circuit Breaker and Retry concepts
Observability basics (logging & monitoring)
JWT-based authentication in microservices

Practical Node.js Implementation

Build simple microservices using Node.js
Basic NestJS microservice setup
REST-based service-to-service communication
Intro to containerization with Docker

This course keeps things focused: strong theory + essential hands-on with Node.js, so you understand not just how to code microservices — but how to design them properly
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Who this course is for:

Backend developers transitioning from monolithic to microservices architecture
Node.js developers building scalable, distributed systems
Full-stack developers strengthening backend expertise

Microservices with Node.js: Complete Beginner to Advanced

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Course content

Introduction to the Microservices7 lectures • 27min

Monolith to Microservices Migration Strategy6 lectures • 36min

Microservices Architecture Patterns9 lectures • 27min

Microservices Arch Pattern with visual Diagrams5 lectures • 39min

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