Course Outline
Part I: Domain Modelling and Design
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Principles of Domain Driven Design
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Utilizing event storming for domain discovery
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Bounded contexts and context mapping strategies
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Data ownership and the database-per-service principle
Part II: Contracts and Communication
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Contract design principles
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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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Patterns for service-to-service communication
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State management techniques
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Publish/subscribe messaging
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Managing secrets and configurations
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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 methodologies
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Service-level testing approaches
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 processes
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Storage and database service integration
Part VI: Deployment
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Setting up CI/CD pipelines
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Implementing deployment rings
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Utilizing feature flags
Part VII: Observability
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Centralised logging
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Distributed tracing
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Metrics collection and dashboard creation
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Monitoring and alerting systems
Part VIII: Resilience and Disaster Recovery
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Configuring health probes and readiness checks
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Managing compute resource failures
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Strategies for infrastructure failure
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Service-level failure handling
Requirements
- Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (such as C#, Java, Python, or similar)
- A fundamental understanding of REST APIs and HTTP protocols
- Experience with Git and standard version control workflows
- Basic familiarity with a cloud platform (e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP), including app deployment or portal navigation
Target Audience
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Development teams in the process of migrating from monolithic architectures to microservices
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Software architects responsible for designing distributed systems
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Teams already utilizing microservices seeking to enhance their 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 :)
