About this course: 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.
Who is this class for: This course benefits technical professionals, specifically application developers, quality assurance staff, and administrators. Developers familiar with traditional application development but interested in using microservices in a DevOps environment will benefit. Microservices are appropriate to large-scale enterprise environments so this course should appeal to people interested in developing for those environments.
Created by: IBM
Taught by: Karen Durston, Software Engineer
Taught by: Steeve Chwojko
| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | This course can be completed in 5 weeks, with 1-2 hours/week. |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
What are microservices?
In this module, you learn the definition of microservices, their characteristics, and how microservices communicate.
6 videos, 6 readings, 6 practice quizzes
- Video: What are microservices - Part 1
- Reading: What are microservices -1
- Practice Quiz: What are microservices - part 1
- Video: What are microservices - Part 2
- Reading: What are microservices - 2
- Practice Quiz: What are microservices - part 2
- Video: From tradition to SaaS
- Practice Quiz: From tradition to SaaS
- Reading: From tradition to SaaS
- Video: Characteristics of a microservices application
- Practice Quiz: Characteristics of a microservices application
- Reading: Characteristics of a microservices application
- Video: Microservice communication - 1
- Reading: Microservice communication - 1
- Practice Quiz: Microservice communication - 1
- Video: Microservice communication - 2
- Reading: Microservice Communication - 2
- Practice Quiz: Microservice communication - 2
Graded: Summative quiz: What are microservices
Graded: Summative quiz: from tradition to SaaS
Graded: Summative quiz: Characteristics of a microservices application
Graded: Summative quiz: Microservice communication
WEEK 2
Microservice 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, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes
- Video: What came before - the monolithic architectural style
- Reading: What came before - the monolithic architectural style
- Practice Quiz: What came before - the monolithic architectural style
- Video: Microservices architecture in today's computing environment
- Reading: Microservices architecture in today's computing environment
- Practice Quiz: Microservices architecture in today's computing environment
Graded: Summative quiz: What came before - the monolithic architectural style
Graded: Summative quiz: Microservices architecture in today's computing environment
WEEK 3
Microservices 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, 7 readings
- Discussion Prompt: Why would microservices make the operational environment more complex?
- Video: Challenges of microservices
- Reading: Benjamin Wooton: "Microservices - Not a free lunch!"
- Reading: Martin Fowler: "Microservices Prerequisites You must be this tall to use microservices"
- Video: DevOps
- Reading: Martin Fowler: DeploymentPipeline
- Reading: IBM DevOps for Dummies V3
- Reading: Blue/Green deployments
- Video: Tools to address the challenges of microservice
- Reading: Jason McGee: IBM, Google and Lyft give microservices a ride on the Istio Service Mesh
- Reading: Itsio mesh
Graded: Summative quiz: Challenges of microservices
Graded: Summative quiz: DevOps
Graded: Summative quiz: Service mesh
WEEK 4
Decomposing 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, 4 readings
- Video: Decomposing a monolithic application
- Reading: Redbook: Microservices from Theory to Practice
- Reading: Martin Fowler: MonolithFirst
- Reading: IBM Master Data Management
- Reading: Microservices reference architecture
- Video: Examples of microservice architecture
- Discussion Prompt: Have you seen monoliths that could be decomposed?
Graded: Summative quiz: Decomposing a monolithic application
Graded: Summative quiz: Example decompositions
Graded: Badge completion quiz
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Ratings and Reviews
Nicely designed course to explain fundamentals of Microservices
Very good introduction to microservices.
Good course, well taught, useful for getting an understanding and to spot challenges and best practices in developing and designing microservices
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Very good content, but I think que quizzes could focus in more concrete microservice fundamentals.