Microservices and Serverless Application Development

Welcome to this introductory course on microservices and serverless, essential technologies for cloud native and application modernization workloads. Rather than building large applications, known as monoliths, that perform all the functionality, microservices break down larger applications into smaller pieces that are independently maintainable and scalable, providing a host of benefits. This architecture is now used in the largest software organizations in the world, because it provides cost

• Summarize fundamentals and benefits of microservices versus monoliths
• Create and test REST API endpoints using cURL and Postman
• Build and deploy microservices using Docker and serverless platforms
• Practice development and deployment in a cloud-based environment

• Basic software development concepts
• Understanding of cloud computing and distributed systems