Microservice - Basics (java)

🗓️ Course Schedule

📅 Day 1: Introduction to Microservices

Topics:

• Monolithic vs Microservices Architecture
• Characteristics & advantages of microservices
• Real-world examples (Netflix, Amazon, Uber)
• Introduction to REST APIs and JSON
• Tools and Tech Stack Overview: Spring Boot / Node.js / Docker (overview)

Hands-On:

• Create a basic RESTful API in Java (Spring Boot) or Node.js (Express)

📅 Day 2: Designing Microservices

Topics:

• Microservices design principles
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD) basics
• Service decomposition strategies
• Communication between services (REST, gRPC basics)

Hands-On:

• Create 2 simple services: e.g., User Service and Order Service
• Make them communicate using REST endpoints

📅 Day 3: Service Communication & Data Management

Topics:

• API Gateway & Service Registry overview (e.g., Netflix Eureka, Spring Cloud Gateway)
• Database per service vs shared database
• Error handling, retries, and timeouts
• Intro to Docker & containerization

Hands-On:

• Use Postman to test inter-service communication
• Basic Docker demo: containerize one service

📅 Day 4: Mini Project + Best Practices

Topics:

• Best practices: logging, security, scalability
• Brief on CI/CD & deployment strategies
• Recap and Q&A

Hands-On:

• Build a mini project: