Mastering Advanced Microservices Architecture
Workshop Duration: 2 Days
Overview : This 2-day advanced workshop provides in-depth knowledge and practical experience in designing, securing, testing, and deploying resilient microservices architectures
Target Audience: Intermediate to advanced developers with prior experience in microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes
Takeaways:
- Workshop slides and reference materials
- Access to further resources, including advanced research and tools
- Certificate of Completion
Mode: Online/Offline
Course Outline
Day 1: Advanced Microservices Architecture and Design Patterns
1. Deep Dive into Microservices Architecture
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Microservices vs. Monolithic: Key Differences and Trade-offs
- Designing for Scalability and Availability
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Bounded Contexts in Microservices
- Hands-on: Break down a monolithic application into microservices based on DDD principles
2. Event-Driven Architecture in Microservices
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Introduction to Event-Driven Microservices
- Messaging Patterns: Publish-Subscribe, Event Sourcing, CQRS
- Implementing Event Bus with RabbitMQ/Kafka
- Hands-on: Building an event-driven microservice using Kafka for real-time communication
3. Microservices Design Patterns
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Saga Pattern for Managing Distributed Transactions
- Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead Patterns for Resilience
- API Gateway Pattern for Centralized Request Management
- Hands-on: Implement a Saga Pattern with a simple payment processing workflow
4. Service Mesh and Managing Microservice Communication
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Introduction to Service Mesh: Benefits and Use Cases
- Implementing Service Mesh with Istio/Linkerd
- Traffic Management, Load Balancing, and Failover
- Hands-on: Setup and configure Istio for managing traffic between microservices
Day 2: Security, Testing, Monitoring, and Deployment of Microservices
1. Securing Microservices: Authentication, Authorization, and API Security
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for Secure API Access
- JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for Microservices Authentication
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Security Best Practices
- Hands-on: Implement JWT-based authentication and RBAC in a microservice architecture
2. Distributed Tracing and Monitoring for Microservices
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- The Challenges of Monitoring Distributed Systems
- Implementing Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry/Jaeger
- Real-time Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
- Hands-on: Setup monitoring and distributed tracing for microservices using Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger
3. Testing Microservices
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Unit Testing Microservices with Mocking and Dependency Injection
- Contract Testing for Microservices Communication (Pact, Spring Cloud Contract)
- Integration and End-to-End Testing for Microservices with Testcontainers
- Hands-on: Write contract and integration tests for microservices using Pact and Testcontainers
4. Continuous Deployment and DevOps for Microservices
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- CI/CD Pipeline for Microservices: Jenkins/GitHub Actions
- Kubernetes for Orchestrating Microservices in Production
- Canary Releases and Blue-Green Deployments
- Hands-on: Set up a CI/CD pipeline for deploying microservices to Kubernetes with canary releases
5. Final Project: Building and Deploying a Resilient Microservice Architecture
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Requirements: Build a set of microservices for a retail system (e.g., order, payment, inventory services)
- Use an API Gateway for request routing
- Implement event-driven communication for inventory updates
- Secure the microservices with JWT-based authentication
- Monitor and trace the system using Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger
- Hands-on: Students will build, test, secure, and deploy a fully functional microservice architecture
- Requirements: Build a set of microservices for a retail system (e.g., order, payment, inventory services)