Microservices

Monolith to microservices, step by step: when not to use them, domain-driven design, the strangler fig, REST vs gRPC, events, Kafka, API gateways, service discovery, database per service, and saga, CQRS, outbox and circuit breakers.

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Lesson 1

Monolith vs Microservices Explained Simply

Why do companies like Netflix and Amazon use microservices, and when should YOU avoid them? Lesson 1 of the complete Microservices Course: monolith vs microservices, explained with simple notebook-style diagrams.

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6:57

Lesson 2

Microservices Characteristics & When NOT to Use Them

Why do so many teams get SLOWER after moving to microservices? Lesson 2 of the complete Microservices Course: the 9 characteristics of microservices, Conway's law, the distributed monolith trap, and 5 signs you should not use…

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Lesson 3

Domain-Driven Design for Microservices: Bounded Contexts & Aggregates

How do you decide where one microservice ends and the next begins? Lesson 3 of the complete Microservices Course: Domain-Driven Design explained simply.

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Lesson 4

How to Break a Monolith into Microservices: Strangler Fig Pattern

Why do big-bang rewrites fail, and how do you break a monolith safely? Lesson 4 of the complete Microservices Course: how to find service boundaries, which service to extract first, and the Strangler Fig pattern step by step,…

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6:44

Lesson 5

REST vs gRPC: Synchronous Communication Between Microservices

Your checkout calls 4 services in a row. What happens when one gets slow? Lesson 5 of the complete Microservices Course: synchronous communication.

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5:46

Lesson 6

Async Communication & Event-Driven Architecture

What happens to an order when the email service is down? Lesson 6 of the complete Microservices Course: asynchronous communication.

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Lesson 7

Apache Kafka for Microservices: Topics, Partitions & Consumer Groups

How does Kafka handle thousands of events per second and still keep them in order? Lesson 7 of the complete Microservices Course: Apache Kafka explained simply.

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Lesson 8

API Gateway Pattern & Backend for Frontend (BFF)

Why should a mobile app never call 6 microservices directly? Lesson 8 of the complete Microservices Course: the API Gateway pattern.

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Lesson 9

Service Discovery & Load Balancing in Microservices

How does one microservice find another when IP addresses keep changing? Lesson 9 of the complete Microservices Course: service discovery.

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Lesson 10

Database per Service & Data Ownership

Why does sharing one database quietly turn your microservices back into a monolith? Lesson 10 of the complete Microservices Course: the database per service pattern.

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Lesson 11

Saga, CQRS, Outbox & Circuit Breakers: How Microservices Stay Consistent

4 topics in one lesson: The Saga Pattern, CQRS & Event Sourcing, Outbox & Idempotency and Fault Tolerance.

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