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Foundational Concepts of Microservices Architecture 

  • Defining the scope and characteristics of microservices
  • Evaluating operational advantages and potential complexities of microservices
  • Analytical review of microservices versus monolithic system designs

Establishing an AWS Cloud9 Environment for Microservices Development — Expedited Configuration

  • Provisioning a dedicated AWS Cloud9 workspace
  • Optimizing the development environment configuration
  • Integrating AWS native services with Cloud9

Developing Microservices Utilizing Docker

  • Foundations of Docker and the benefits of containerization
  • Procedures for constructing and validating Docker containers
  • Employing Docker Compose to manage multi-container applications
  • Practical application: Deploying a multi-container system in a local environment

Event-Driven Architecture and Asynchronous Communication Patterns

  • Core principles of event-driven design and the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous messaging
  • Utilizing Amazon SQS for queue-based message handling
  • Implementing Amazon SNS for publish-subscribe communication
  • Leveraging Amazon EventBridge for centralized event routing and distribution
  • Examining Kafka and Amazon MSK for high-throughput streaming scenarios — Overview only, optional
  • Practical application: Orchestrating asynchronous data exchange between services via SQS and SNS, followed by the integration of EventBridge for advanced routing

Deploying Microservices on AWS Infrastructure (ECS, Lambda, and EKS)

  • Configuring Amazon ECS for container orchestration
  • Implementing microservices using AWS Lambda
  • Overview of Kubernetes and Amazon EKS as an alternative orchestration platform — Overview only, comparative analysis with ECS
  • Strategies for service discovery within a microservices ecosystem
  • Techniques for scaling microservices within AWS
  • Practical application: Deploying workloads on ECS and conducting a comparative evaluation with an EKS configuration

API Governance and Management with AWS API Gateway

  • Development and administration of RESTful APIs
  • Integration of APIs with underlying microservices
  • Implementing API versioning and throttling controls
  • Practical application: Publishing microservices via API Gateway with implemented versioning schemes

Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Distributed Tracing

  • Leveraging AWS CloudWatch for system monitoring
  • Configuring centralized logging with Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  • Establishing alarm triggers and notification mechanisms
  • Theoretical framework for distributed tracing
  • Utilizing AWS X-Ray for request flow analysis
  • Implementing OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral instrumentation
  • Practical application: Applying X-Ray and OpenTelemetry to trace request lifecycles across distributed services

CI/CD Pipelines and Infrastructure as Code 

  • Foundational concepts of CI/CD automation for microservices
  • Overview of Terraform for automated infrastructure provisioning

Security Best Practices for Microservices

  • Implementation of IAM roles and policy controls
  • Enhancing microservices security through API Gateway features
  • Protocols for encrypting data in transit and at rest

Requirements

Participants are expected to possess the following competencies:

  • Basic to intermediate proficiency in Python
  • Fundamental understanding of REST APIs, HTTP protocols, and web application architecture.
  • Basic familiarity with Linux command-line utilities and Git version control.
  • Basic understanding of Docker and containerization concepts is recommended, though not strictly required.
  • Basic familiarity with cloud computing principles and AWS service offerings is advantageous
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