This program walks you through distributed system design without glossing over the technical nuances. You'll build actual microservice architectures, implement inter-service communication patterns, and handle real deployment scenarios. Each workshop module includes hands-on assignments where you apply concepts immediately. The focus is on practical skills that translate directly to production environments, not abstract theory that sounds impressive but doesn't help when you're debugging service mesh configuration at 3am.
Six modules covering architecture patterns, service communication, data management, deployment strategies, monitoring infrastructure, and security implementation. Each module includes practical exercises with specific technical outcomes.
Breaking monoliths into services requires more than drawing boxes on a whiteboard. This module covers domain-driven design boundaries, data ownership models, and transaction management across distributed components. You'll refactor a sample application using actual decomposition strategies.
REST isn't always the answer, and gRPC isn't magic. This workshop compares synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns with actual performance measurements. You'll implement message queues, event streams, and request-response patterns while measuring latency and throughput differences.
Distributed transactions fail in interesting ways. This module covers saga patterns, eventual consistency models, and compensation logic. You'll implement actual failure scenarios and build recovery mechanisms that handle partial failures without data corruption.
Kubernetes configuration files don't write themselves. This workshop covers deployment strategies, service discovery, load balancing, and resource management. You'll deploy a multi-service application with proper health checks, rolling updates, and autoscaling policies based on actual metrics.
Distributed tracing reveals problems that logs can't show. This module implements monitoring with Prometheus, distributed tracing with Jaeger, and log aggregation with structured logging. You'll troubleshoot actual performance issues using correlation IDs and trace analysis.
Service-to-service authentication matters more than most developers realize. This workshop covers OAuth2 flows, JWT validation, API gateway security, and secret management. You'll implement authentication across service boundaries and handle certificate rotation without downtime.
Systems Architect
Spent eight years migrating legacy systems to microservices at financial institutions. Focuses on practical decomposition strategies and teaches from actual production incidents.
Platform Engineer
Builds observability infrastructure for distributed systems. Specializes in debugging production issues through trace analysis and metric correlation across service boundaries.
DevOps Lead
Operates Kubernetes clusters handling millions of requests daily. Teaches deployment strategies based on patterns that survive actual traffic spikes and infrastructure failures.
Sessions run continuously with new cohorts starting every three weeks. Each workshop includes access to lab environments, code repositories, and architecture documentation. Technical support available during exercises through dedicated channels.