Microservices Tutorial Index (Chapter-
wise)
Total Course Duration: ~30 Hours
Part 1: Foundations of Microservices (Total: ~4
Hours)
Estimated
Module Topics Covered
Duration
• What are Microservices?
Introduction to
• Monolith vs Microservices 1 hour
Microservices
• Benefits and Challenges
• Single Responsibility Principle
• SOLID and Design principle
Core Principles of
• Decentralization 1.5 hours
Microservices Architecture
• Scalability and Autonomy
• API Contracts
• Bounded Context and Domain-
Driven Design (DDD)
Designing Microservices • Service Granularity 2 hours
• Designing APIs (REST, gRPC,
GraphQL)
• Tools and IDEs
Setting up the Development • Docker and Containers
1 hour
Environment • Git Repositories and Branching
Strategy
Part 2: Building Microservices (Total: ~10 Hours)
Estimated
Module Topics Covered
Duration
• [Link] Core Web API
Building the • Data Access Layer (EF
4 hours
Microservice Core/MongoDB)
• CRUD Operations
Estimated
Module Topics Covered
Duration
Service • Synchronous: REST/gRPC
Communication • Asynchronous: Messaging with Azure 1.5 hours
Patterns Service Bus/Kafka
• AppSettings / YAML files
Configuration
• Centralized Configuration using 1 hour
Management
Consul, or Azure App Configuration
• Eureka / Consul / Kubernetes DNS
Service Discovery 1 hour
• Registering and Discovering Services
• Role of API Gateway
API Gateway Pattern • Implementation with Ocelot / YARP / 1 hour
NGINX / Istio Ingress Gateway
• OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
Authentication and
• Identity Server or Auth0 integration 1.5 hours
Authorization
• Role-based and Policy-based access
Part 3: Inter-Service Communication and Reliability
(Total: ~5 Hours)
Estimated
Module Topics Covered
Duration
• Event Sourcing Basics
Event-Driven • Messaging with RabbitMQ, Kafka,
2 hours
Microservices or Azure Service Bus
• Publishing and Consuming Events
Resilience and Fault • Retry, Timeout, Circuit Breaker
1.5 hours
Tolerance • Polly in .NET
• Correlation ID
Distributed Tracing
• Tools: OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, 1 hour
and Logging
Zipkin, ELK/EFK Stack
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing
Testing Microservices • Contract Testing (Pact) 1.5 hours
• TestContainers
Part 4: CI/CD, Deployment, and Scaling (Total: ~6
Hours)
Estimated
Module Topics Covered
Duration
• Dockerfiles
Dockerizing
• Docker Compose for Local Dev 1.5 hours
Microservices
• Multi-stage Builds
• K8s Basics: Pods, Services,
Kubernetes for Deployments
2 hours
Microservices • Helm Charts
• Auto-scaling and Health Checks
• GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps /
GitLab CI
CI/CD Pipelines • Build → Test → Deploy pipeline 1.5 hours
• Canary and Blue-Green
Deployment
• Metrics with Prometheus +
Monitoring and Grafana
1 hour
Observability • Health Checks and Alerts
• Logging with Fluentd, Loki
Part 5: Advanced Topics and Use Cases (Total: ~5.5
Hours)
Estimated
Module Topics Covered
Duration
• API Security Best Practices
Securing • Rate Limiting
1.5 hours
Microservices • Secrets Management (Vault, Azure Key
Vault)
• Common Mistakes
Microservices Anti-
• How to Avoid Tight Coupling 1 hour
Patterns
• Other Design Pattern
AI/ML in • AI-Powered Microservice
1 hour
Microservices • Model Serving and Integration
• Building a Final E-Commerce Platform
(Product, Order, Payment, Inventory
Real-World Case
Services) 2 hours
Study
• End-to-End Architecture with CI/CD and
Kubernetes
Estimated
Module Topics Covered
Duration
• Serverless Microservices
Final Thoughts and
• Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd) 1 hour
Future Trends
• Multi-cloud Deployments