Microservices Software Architecture: Patterns and Techniques

Name: Microservices Software Architecture: Patterns and Techniques
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Learn how to design and implement microservice systems using the right architecture design patterns and techniques

Created byBinary Brain

Last updated 4/2021

English

What you'll learn

Learn about microservices architecture
Learn how to implement software architecture patterns for a distributed system to allow scalability whilst maintaining consistency
Learn techniques to help you in the design, development, deployment and monitoring of your microservice based system
Identify technical challenges and common pitfalls

Course content

5 sections • 23 lectures • 1h 6m total length

Introduction1:57
Explore microservices architecture, patterns and techniques, identifying technical challenges and common pitfalls in microservices-based systems while implementing software architecture patterns for scalable, distributed systems, including design, deployment, and monitoring.
What are microservices, and when should I use them?3:23
An introduction to microservice architecture explains what microservices are, their loosely coupled, fine-grained services, and how they intercommunicate to form a modular, scalable system, with costs and testing tradeoffs.
Microservice Applicability
Why many microservices projects fail3:20
Identify failure factors in microservices projects, such as poor planning and underestimation of development, deployment, and interprocess communication, and emphasize automation and realistic planning to avoid anti-patterns.

Microservice template2:18
Microservice Templates - Getting Started0:50
Code Repository Setup4:50
Compare monorepos and discrete repositories for microservices, balancing input/output contract synchronization, build times, code ownership, and the risk of tight coupling.
Microservice Decomposition2:26
Decompose systems into loosely coupled, highly cohesive microservices guided by the common closure principle and business capabilities, enabling fine-grained services such as order history, placement, tracking, and cart promotions.
Microservice Decomposition

Inter-Service Communication3:21
Explore inter-service communication in microservices, comparing synchronous remote procedure invocation using REST or Thrift with asynchronous message-based patterns on a message bus, and evaluating where each method fits.
Synchronous vs Asynchronous flows
Service Registration2:34
Explore how the microservice registry tracks available instances and network locations to enable dynamic scaling, with startup registration, shutdown removal, and health check api.
Service Discovery3:40
Service Registration & Discovery - Getting Started1:39

Databases3:58
Compare data patterns in microservices, focusing on shared database versus database per service, transactions, decoupling, and the resulting performance and maintenance trade-offs.
API Composition1:50
Event Sourcing5:04
Explore the event sourcing pattern with an event store that publishes state-change events, enables state reconstruction by replaying events, and uses snapshots to optimize performance, with CQRS and eventual consistency.
Event Sourcing - Getting Started!2:19
Two Phase Commit3:54
Saga6:30
Choosing the right data pattern

Failover Mechanism2:11
Explore failover mechanisms in microservice architectures, ensuring redundancy and high availability for critical resources, including a redundant service registry and logs to diagnose failures.
Circuit breakers2:36
Learn how the circuit breaker pattern prevents cascading failures in microservices by timing out failed synchronous requests, probing recovery after a timeout, and preserving system stability.
Circuit breakers - Getting Started2:09
Health API1:33
Implement the health check API as a standard route to report service status. Use 200 for healthy and 500 for errors, with optional custom responses for registry and monitoring tools.
Logging Techniques3:15
Explore logging techniques to trace requests across microservices using a globally unique identifier, and leverage log aggregation tools such as elasticsearch, kibana, splunk, and cloudwatch for end-to-end visibility.
Troubleshooting Microservices
Next Steps0:31

Requirements

Basic software development knowledge
Experience developing software in the industry would be a plus as it would help you appreciate some technical challenges better, but is completely optional

Description

In this course you will learn in detail the software architecture patterns and techniques to develop robust and scalable microservices

We will go through techniques and design patterns that are required in enterprise architecture including :

Event Sourcing pattern
Saga pattern
Microservice Registration
Circuitbreaker pattern
API compostion
Two Phase Commit
Microservice Discovery
and more !

The course is structured around both video tutorials explaining different techniques and architecture patterns, and (optional) assignments to help make sure you're understanding what we're learning.

I'm also available to answer any queries you may have regarding any course material which you didn't understand or would like further detail on.

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Who this course is for:

Software developers who are developing microservices
Software developers who are thinking of refactoring their current system to microservices
Software architects who want to improve their skills in designing microservices
Anyone who wants to learn about microservices and gain in-depth technical knowledge on how to design, structure and develop microservice based systems

Microservices Software Architecture: Patterns and Techniques

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 9min

Codebase Practices4 lectures • 10min

Communication4 lectures • 11min

Data6 lectures • 24min

Fault tolerance & Monitoring6 lectures • 12min

Requirements

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