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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Microservices Architecture 

  • Defining microservices
  • Exploring the advantages and complexities of microservices
  • Contrasting microservices with monolithic architectures

Configuring AWS Cloud9 for Microservices Development — Rapid Setup

  • Provisioning an AWS Cloud9 environment
  • Tailoring the development workspace
  • Integrating AWS services with Cloud9

Developing Microservices using Docker

  • Fundamentals of Docker and containerization
  • Creating and verifying Docker containers
  • Utilizing Docker Compose for multi-container setups
  • Practical task: Assembling a multi-container application locally

Event-Driven Architecture and Asynchronous Messaging

  • Core tenets of event-driven architecture; synchronous vs. asynchronous communication
  • Leveraging Amazon SQS for queue-based messaging
  • Utilizing Amazon SNS for publish-subscribe patterns
  • Routing and dispatching events with Amazon EventBridge
  • Kafka and Amazon MSK for high-volume streaming—Conceptual overview, optional
  • Practical task: Establishing asynchronous links between two services via SQS and SNS, then expanding with EventBridge routing

Microservices Deployment on AWS (ECS, Lambda, and EKS)

  • Initializing Amazon ECS for container orchestration
  • Deploying services via AWS Lambda
  • Basics of Kubernetes and Amazon EKS as an alternative—Conceptual overview, comparative analysis with ECS
  • Implementing service discovery in microservices contexts
  • Scaling strategies for microservices on AWS
  • Practical task: Deploying on ECS and conducting a comparative evaluation with an EKS configuration

API Governance with AWS API Gateway

  • Building and managing RESTful APIs
  • Linking APIs to microservices
  • Managing API versions and implementing throttling
  • Practical task: Publishing microservices through API Gateway with version control

Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Distributed Tracing

  • Applying AWS CloudWatch for system monitoring
  • Configuring logging via Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  • Establishing alarms and notification mechanisms
  • Concepts in distributed tracing
  • Request tracing using AWS X-Ray
  • Vendor-agnostic instrumentation with OpenTelemetry
  • Practical task: Instrumenting microservices with X-Ray and OpenTelemetry to trace requests across services

CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code 

  • CI/CD pipeline methodologies for microservices
  • Overview of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning

Best Practices for Microservices Security

  • Configuring IAM roles and policies
  • Enhancing microservices security via API Gateway
  • Data encryption during transit and at rest

Requirements

Participants are expected to have:

  • Fundamental to intermediate proficiency in Python
  • A basic grasp of REST APIs, HTTP, and web application fundamentals.
  • Basic competence with Linux command-line tools and Git.
  • A foundational understanding of Docker and containerization concepts is advised, though not required.
  • Basic familiarity with cloud computing principles and AWS services is beneficial

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