• Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

With the advent of digital innovation, microservice architecture is becoming the default style for building enterprise applications. Designing applications with microservices provides businesses more freedom, flexibility, and resiliency than designing with traditional architecture. Adopting microservice architecture helps businesses build applications that are more scalable and fault tolerant.

In this course, you'll learn about microservice, including the elements of microservice architecture and the many advantages it offers application designers. You'll also learn both the disadvantages of traditional monolithic architecture and the potential drawbacks of microservice architecture. And you'll learn about the characteristics of microservice architecture, as well as its benefits and trade-offs.

Learning Objectives

Building Better Applications with Microservice Architecture

  • Building Better Applications with Microservice Architecture
  • identify the elements of microservice architecture
  • identify the disadvantages of traditional monolithic architecture
  • identify the advantages in design freedom offered by microservice architecture
  • identify the advantages in flexibility offered by microservice architecture
  • identify the advantages in resiliency offered by microservice architecture
  • identify potential drawbacks to using microservice architecture
  • Knowledge Check: Microservice Architecture

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the Specialty Areas listed below. Click to view Specialty Area details within the interactive National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.