LinkedIn – Microservices Foundations 2024-2

Microservices Foundations course. Microservice is an important pattern in software architecture, and having an overview of this architecture and its differences with other models is critical as a starting point for evaluating this model. This course covers the basic concepts of microservices to help you determine if this architectural model is right for you and your team. This course is generally divided into the following sections:

• Introduction: In the introductory part, Frank Moley, the course instructor, introduces microservices and explains their place in the history of software architecture.
• The main concepts of microservices: In this section, you will learn about concepts such as services, the way to communicate between them, distribution and scalability, limited ranges, data domains as service boundaries, etc.
• Advanced concepts of microservices: In this section, we will go to topics such as asynchronous communication, logging and tracking in microservices architecture, the importance of continuous deployment, etc.
• Architectural choices: In the final part of the course, the instructor discusses the factors influencing the choice of architecture, advantages and disadvantages, as well as the concept of edge services and DevOps adoption.

What you will learn:

• The history of microservice architecture and its relationship with other patterns in recent years.
• Key concepts of microservices including bounded contexts and API layer.
• Some more advanced aspects of this architecture.
• The importance of adopting a DevOps culture if you want to move towards microservices.

This course is suitable for people who:

• Are software developers and want to update their knowledge about software architecture.
• Software architects looking to understand whether microservices are the right solution for their projects.
• Product managers who want to learn about how architecture affects product development.