Overview

Week 7: What are microservices?

▶️ Lecture recordings for this week will be posted here.

Pre-requisites: Containers & Docker

If you are unfamiliar with Docker or other container management, please review these modules from 1dv613:

• 📝 Intro to containers - Theory and demos
• 💻 Exercise Just Task It - docker
• 📝 Intro to docker-compose - Theory and demos
• 💻 Exercise Just Task It - docker-compose
• 💻 Exercise Just Task It - production

Week 8: Service Communication

▶️ Lecture recordings for this week will be posted here.

Reading Material

Chapter 3: Designing Cloud Native Applications, Service Communication

Chapter 2: Communication Patterns, Synchronous Messaging Patterns (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and Asynchronous Messaging Patterns.

Pre-requisites: GitLab Pipelines

• 💻 Exercise Deploy JTI using a pipeline

Week 9: Container management and orchestration, Kubernetes Architecture

▶️ Lecture recordings for this week will be posted here.

Reading Material

Chapter 3: Connectivity and Composition Patterns, Focus on: Service Connectivity, Service Abstraction, Service Registry and Discovery.

Exercises

During this week, you are expected to obtain the practical knowledge needed to effectively orchestrate containers in Kubernetes. These skills will be essential for Assignment 2.

TBA

Supporting Videos

• 🎥 Kubernetes Explained in 6 Minutes | k8s Architecture
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• 🎥 Some practical lectures and demos (in Swedish) on Kubernetes in CSCloud (by Morgan Eriksson)
  • Theory and demos

Week 10: Designing Applications for Cloud Native

▶️ Lecture recordings for this week will be posted here.

Reading Material

Chapter 3: Designing Cloud Native Applications

Chapter 4: Data Management Patterns, Decentralized Data Management, CQRS, CDNs.

Exercises

TBA