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Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Mastery

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Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Mastery tutorial

Course contents

1. Foundations of Microservices

1 The Monolith to Microservices transition: When and why? 8 min 2 Domain Driven Design (DDD): Bounded Contexts and Aggregates 8 min 3 Database Per Service: Managing data consistency 8 min 4 Service Discovery and Health Checks in .NET 8 min

2. Communication Patterns

5 Synchronous Communication: HTTP/gRPC and Service Mesh 8 min 6 Asynchronous Communication: Message Brokers (RabbitMQ/Kafka) 8 min 7 API Gateways: YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy) vs Ocelot 8 min 8 Protobuf and Shared Contracts: Managing breaking changes 8 min

3. Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)

9 Introduction to EDA: Producers, Consumers, and Topics 8 min 10 The Publisher/Subscriber Pattern in .NET 8 min 11 Event Sourcing: Capturing every state change 8 min 12 CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) with MediatR 8 min

4. Distributed Transactions & Resiliency

13 The Saga Pattern: Orchestration vs Choreography 8 min 14 The Outbox Pattern: Ensuring reliable message delivery 8 min 15 Idempotency: Preventing duplicate message processing 8 min 16 Distributed Locking with Redis (Redlock) 8 min

5. Observability & Monitoring

17 Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry 8 min 18 Centralized Logging: ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) 8 min 19 Metrics and Dashboards: Prometheus and Grafana 8 min 20 Correlation IDs: Tracking requests across services 8 min

6. Security & Identity

21 Centralized Authentication: IdentityServer4 & Duende Identity 8 min 22 OAuth2 and OIDC Flow for Microservices 8 min 23 API Key Management and Rate Limiting 8 min 24 Mutual TLS (mTLS) for Internal Service-to-Service Security 8 min

7. Infrastructure & Deployment

25 Containerization: Production-grade Dockerfiles 8 min 26 Kubernetes for .NET: Pods, Services, and Ingress 8 min 27 Helm Charts: Managing complex deployments 8 min 28 Blue-Green and Canary Deployments in K8s 8 min

8. FAANG Microservices Case Studies

29 Case Study: Designing a Global Notification Engine (Reliability at Scale) 8 min 30 Case Study: Building a High-Performance Logging Pipeline (PB/Day) 8 min

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SOLID Design Principles — Practice Quiz
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Test your understanding of Microservices with .NET. Distributed systems, APIs, messaging, …
Intermediate 15 min
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Entity Framework Core — Practice Quiz
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