Master the art of building scalable, resilient microservices architectures using Node.js, NestJS, and Express. This comprehensive course takes you from understanding core microservices concepts to implementing production-ready distributed systems with real-world patterns and best practices.
Whether you’re a backend developer looking to level up your architecture skills or a team lead planning to migrate from monolith to microservices, this course provides hands-on experience with every major microservices pattern through practical code examples and demo projects.
What Will Students Learn?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Architecture and Design:
- Understand microservices architecture principles and when to apply them
- Design service boundaries using Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Migrate from monolith to microservices using the Strangler Fig pattern
- Apply the 12-Factor App methodology for cloud-native applications
Communication Patterns:
- Implement synchronous communication with REST and gRPC
- Build asynchronous messaging with RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Design event-driven architectures with pub/sub patterns
- Create API Gateways and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns
Data Management:
- Implement the Database-per-Service pattern
- Handle distributed transactions with the Saga pattern
- Apply CQRS and Event Sourcing for complex domains
- Manage data consistency in distributed systems
Resilience and Reliability:
- Implement Circuit Breaker, Retry, and Bulkhead patterns
- Design for failure with fallback strategies
- Build observable systems with logging, metrics, and tracing
- Secure microservices with JWT, OAuth2, and API keys
NestJS Native Microservices:
- Build microservices with NestJS TCP transport
- Implement AMQP-based microservices with RabbitMQ
- Create high-performance services with gRPC
- Use Redis for pub/sub and caching
Deployment and DevOps:
- Containerize services with Docker
- Orchestrate services with Kubernetes
- Implement CI/CD pipelines
- Deploy serverless microservices
