Spring Cloud and Microservices: full course guide
Service decomposition, discovery, gateways, configuration, resilience, messaging and observability with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, with runnable examples throughout.
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01Microservices & Spring Cloud Overview
- Monolith vs Microservices Trade-Offs
- Spring Cloud Ecosystem Overview
- 12-Factor App Principles
- Inter-Service Communication: REST vs Messaging
- Project Setup: Multi-Module Maven/Gradle
02Service Discovery & Gateway
- Eureka Server & Client Registration
- Consul as an Alternative to Eureka
- Spring Cloud Gateway: Routing & Filters
- Load Balancing with Spring Cloud LoadBalancer
- Rate Limiting at the Gateway Level
03Configuration & Resilience
- Spring Cloud Config Server & Git Backend
- Dynamic Property Refresh with Spring Cloud Bus
- Circuit Breaker Pattern with Resilience4j
- Retry and Fallback Strategies
- Bulkhead Pattern for Isolation
04Messaging & Event-Driven
- Apache Kafka: Topics, Partitions, Consumer Groups
- Spring Cloud Stream with Kafka Binder
- Saga Pattern for Distributed Transactions
- Event Sourcing Concepts
- Dead Letter Queues & Error Handling
05Observability & Deployment
- Distributed Tracing with Micrometer & Zipkin
- Centralised Logging with ELK Stack
- Health Checks & Spring Boot Actuator
- Kubernetes Deployment & Helm Charts
- CI/CD Pipeline for Microservices
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