Microservice Design & Architecture

Microservice Architect Certification

The Microservice Design & Architecture course provides comprehensive coverage of
microservice technology architecture models and design practices, including containerization
concepts. It covers microservice deployment and scaling, provisioning, registration, isolation
levels, logical containers, PODs, composition architecture, data management, autonomous
ownership and versioning, event sourcing, CQRS, composite isolated containers and container
hosting models.

Course content
Fundamental SOA, Services & Microservices

• Business and Technology Drivers for SOA, Services and Microservices

• Strategic Goals and Benefits of Service-Oriented Computing
• Plain English Introduction to Services and Microservices
• Fundamental Characteristics of a Service-Oriented Architecture
• Understanding Service-Orientation as a Design Paradigm, including coverage of the Four
Pillars of Service-Orientation
• Introduction to Service Layers, Service Models and Service Compositions
• Service Inventories, Service Layers and Service API Governance and Management
• Introduction to Common Service Technologies, including API Gateways, Virtualization,
Containerization
• Introduction to Cloud Computing and Cloud Services
• Adoption Impacts and Requirements, including considerations for Governance,
Infrastructure, Performance and Standardization

Microservice Technology Concepts

• Comparing Service Implementation Mediums

• Service Roles and Service Agents
• Message Exchange Patterns and Service Activities
• Basic XML, XML Schema, JSON and JSON Schema Concepts
• HTTP Methods, Response Codes and Headers
• Basic REST Service Concepts, including Properties and Constraints
• REST Services, Contracts, Resources and Messaging
• Hypermedia and Late Binding
• Basic WSDL and SOAP Concepts
• WS-* Technologies
• Web Service Contracts, Messaging and Registries
• Cloud Computing Concepts
• Vertical and Horizontal Scaling
• Multitenancy, Elasticity and Resiliency
• On-Demand Usage, Ubiquitous Access and Measured Usage
• Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds
• IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

Fundamental Microservice Architecture & Containerization

• Introduction to Microservice Architecture

• Common Microservice Design Challenges
• Microservices and Design Granularity
• Microservice Guiding Design Principles
• Introduction to Containerization
• Containerization vs. Virtualization
• Fundamental Container Architecture Elements
• Container Engines, Build Files, Images and Networking
• Microservice Automation, Logging and Monitoring
• Microservice Instance Registration
• Scaling Technology, Basic Scalability Types and Mechanisms
• Technology Drivers for Cloud-based Microservice Deployments
• Micro Task Abstraction and Micro Task Segregation
• Rich Containers and Logical Pod Containers
• DevOps Practices and Benefits
• DevOps Stages and Toolchains
• Domain-Driven Design and Microservices

Advanced Microservice Architecture & Containerization

• Microservice Compositions and Compositor Services

• Autonomous Proxy Services
• Shared Isolated Databases
• Microservice Layers and Isolation Levels
• Pre-Defined Data Views
• Microservice Instance Registrations
• Workload Distribution and Service Load Balancing
• Synchronized Cross-Instance Events
• Event-Driven Messaging for Microservices
• Atomic Event Processing and Appended Events
• Centralized Isolated State Databases
• Container Chains
• Single-Node Multi-Containers
• Multi-Container Isolation Control
• Volatile Container Configurations
• Serverless Microservice Deployments
• Dynamic Scalability Models
• Micro Scatter-Gather Compositions
• Leader Node Election for Microservice Instances
• Redundant Microservice Implementations
• Microservice Composition Autonomy
• Container Sidecars and Microservice Ambassadors
• Log Aggregation for Microservices
• Distributed Diagnostics for Microservices

Microservice Architecture & Containerization Lab

• Reading Exercise 11.1: Case Study Background: Cube Cars

• Lab Exercise 11.2: Establishing a Microservice Scaling Architecture
• Lab Exercise 11.3: Redesigning the CubeSoft Microservices
• Lab Exercise 11.4: Scaling the Customer Notification Microservice
• Reading Exercise 11.5: Case Study Background: XYZ Travel Agency
• Lab Exercise 11.6: Extending the XYZ Microservice Architecture
• Lab Exercise 11.7: Optimizing the Payroll Microservice Architecture
• Lab Exercise 11.8: Designing a New Performance Review Solution