Important Topics to Cover in Microservices
1. Introduction to Microservices
○ What are Microservices?
○ Benefits and Challenges of Microservices
○ Monolithic vs. Microservices Architecture
2. Design Principles
○ Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
○ Single Responsibility Principle
○ Loose Coupling and High Cohesion
○ Service Independence and Scalability
3. Service Communication
○ Synchronous Communication (REST, gRPC)
○ Asynchronous Communication (Message Queues, Event-Driven Architecture)
○ Data Transfer Formats (JSON, Protocol Buffers)
4. API Gateway
○ Introduction to API Gateway
○ Routing and Load Balancing
○ Zuul vs. Spring Cloud Gateway
○ Authentication and Authorization
5. Service Discovery
○ Importance of Service Discovery
○ Eureka Server
○ Consul and Zookeeper
○ Client-Side Load Balancing with Ribbon
6. Configuration Management
○ Externalized Configuration with Spring Cloud Config
○ Configuration Repositories (Git, SVN)
○ Dynamic Configuration Updates
○ Securing Configuration Data
7. Resilience and Fault Tolerance
○ Circuit Breaker Pattern with Hystrix or Resilience4j
○ Fallback Methods
○ Bulkhead Pattern
○ Rate Limiting
8. Distributed Tracing and Monitoring
○ Importance of Observability
○ Distributed Tracing with Zipkin and Sleuth
○ Centralized Logging (ELK Stack, Graylog)
○ Metrics and Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
9. Security
○ Securing Microservices
○ OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
○ JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
○ Secure Communication (HTTPS, SSL/TLS)
10.Data Management
○ Database per Service Pattern
○ Data Consistency (SAGA Pattern, Event Sourcing)
○ CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)
○ Shared vs. Independent Databases
11.Testing Microservices
○ Unit Testing and Integration Testing
○ Contract Testing (Consumer-Driven Contracts)
○ End-to-End Testing
○ Test Automation Frameworks
12.CI/CD for Microservices
○ Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
○ Building and Deploying Docker Containers
○ CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
○ Blue-Green Deployments and Canary Releases
13.Containerization and Orchestration
○ Docker Basics for Microservices
○ Kubernetes Fundamentals
○ Managing Containers with Kubernetes
○ Service Mesh with Istio
14.Deployment Strategies
○ Rolling Updates
○ Blue-Green Deployment
○ Canary Releases
○ A/B Testing
15.Event-Driven Microservices
○ Event Sourcing
○ CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)
○ Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
○ Handling Eventual Consistency
