Ahead of his keynote speech at Code Freeze on Thursday, January 11th, Chris Richardson will be leading a 2-day deep dive into Microservices training.

Audience: Developers and architects

Format: Lectures and discussions

A combination of presentations and discussions about how microservices can be used to enable agile software development in your organization. The workshops tend to be in-depth and very interactive, e.g. 30% presentation, 70% discussion.

Topics covered include:

• Overview of microservices
• Options for deploying microservices
• Microservices communication mechanisms: service<=>service and client<=>application
• Service discovery in a microservices architecture
• Event-driven microservices using event sourcing
• Refactoring to microservices

Course outline:

Day 1

Overview microservice architecture
Developing business logic in a microservice architecture
Lab: writing a simple service
Lab: implementing eventual consistency

Day 2

Queries in a microservice architecture
Lab: implementing CQRS
Inter-process communication in a microservice architecture
Deploying services with Docker
Lab: deploying services with Docker
Refactoring from a monolith to microservice