In enterprise environments, the architectural style of microservices is gaining momentum. In this course, you will learn why microservices are well-suited to modern cloud environments which require short development and delivery cycles. You will learn the characteristics of microservices. You will compare the microservice architecture with monolithic style, emphasizing why microservices are well suited to continuous delivery.
While microservices are more modular to develop and may look simpler, you will discovery that the complexity does not go away, it shifts. An inevitable organizational complexity comes along with many small interacting pieces. Managing, monitoring, logging, and updating microservices creates a greater operational complexity. In this course you learn about the tools necessary to successfully deploy, manage and monitor microservice based applications.
After taking this course, you will have a much better understanding of why microservices are so well suited to cloud environments, the DevOps environments in which microservices run and the tools to manage the complexity that microservices bring to the operational and production environment.
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This course is part of the IBM Microservices Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
1Welcome to the course
Course Introduction
2 videos (Total 6 min), 1 reading
1 reading
Course completion5m
What are microservices?
In this module, you learn the definition of microservices, their characteristics, and how microservices communicate.
6 videos (Total 44 min), 6 readings, 10 quizzes
6 videos
What are microservices - Part 25m
From tradition to SaaS8m
Characteristics of a microservices application9m
Microservice communication - 17m
Microservice communication - 24m
6 readings
What are microservices - Part 1 40m
What are microservices - Part 230m
From tradition to SaaSs
Characteristics of a microservices applications
Microservice communication - Part 1s
Microservice Communication - Part 245m
10 practice exercises
What are microservices - part 14m
What are microservices - part 24m
Summative quiz: What are microservices6m
From tradition to SaaS4m
Summative quiz: from tradition to SaaS4m
Characteristics of a microservices application4m
Summative quiz: Characteristics of a microservices application4m
Microservice communication - 14m
Microservice communication - 24m
Summative quiz: Microservice communication6m
Week
2Microservice architecture
In this module, you learn to describe the microservice architectural style. You also learn how to compare and contrast the microservices style with the monolithic architectural style which was commonly used before the cloud became popular.
2 videos (Total 15 min), 2 readings, 4 quizzes
2 videos
Microservices architecture in today's computing environment9m
2 readings
What came before - the monolithic architectural style5m
Microservices architecture in today's computing environment45m
4 practice exercises
What came before - the monolithic architectural style4m
Summative quiz: What came before - the monolithic architectural style10m
Microservices architecture in today's computing environment6m
Summative quiz: Microservices architecture in today's computing environment15m
Week
3Microservices and DevOps
In this module, you learn why microservices belong in a DevOps environment. You learn how complexity shifts to the operational environment and the type of tools used to manage the additional complexity of working with a multitude of interacting microservices.
3 videos (Total 35 min), 7 readings, 3 quizzes
7 readings
Benjamin Wooton: "Microservices - Not a free lunch!"10m
Martin Fowler: "Microservices Prerequisites You must be this tall to use microservices"10m
Martin Fowler: DeploymentPipeline10m
IBM DevOps for Dummies V310m
Blue/Green deployments10m
Jason McGee: IBM, Google and Lyft give microservices a ride on the Istio Service Mesh10m
Istio mesh10m
3 practice exercises
Summative quiz: Challenges of microservices4m
Summative quiz: DevOps6m
Summative quiz: Service mesh8m
Week
4Decomposing monolithic applications
In a previous module, you learned about monolithic and microservice architectural styles. In this module, you learn how to decompose an existing monolithic application into microservices.
2 videos (Total 15 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes
4 readings
Redbook: Microservices from Theory to Practice10m
Martin Fowler: MonolithFirst10m
IBM Master Data Management10m
Microservices reference architecture10m
3 practice exercises
Summative quiz: Decomposing a monolithic application4m
Summative quiz: Example decompositions4m
Badge completion quizs
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Top Reviews
By NV•Mar 18th 2018
Microservices explained in detail with context from where they come and their implementation. I liked it and it doesn't take long to complete, it took me one hour and a half, video speed at 2x :).
By BS•Oct 7th 2018
A good course. The reading material is extensive and comprehensive. One should definitely pursue this course if they want understand the basics of microservices.
Instructors
Karen Durston
Software Engineer
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About the IBM Microservices Specialization
This specialization is intended for application developers and network administrators seeking to understand the benefits of microservices architecture and container-based applications. The student learns how to develop and deploy microservices applications with Kubernetes on IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Private via a continuous release pipeline.
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