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Microservices Course: Complete Architecture Patterns for Interviews (47 Patterns)
By Mukul Raina
By Mukul Raina
Created by Mukul Raina (Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead at Microsoft, Oxford MSc), this comprehensive course covers the full spectrum of microservices architecture—from mental models and decomposition strategies to communication patterns and distributed data management. It guides you through the monolith-to-microservices journey (including modular monoliths, the Strangler Fig pattern, and common anti-patterns), service boundary definition using Domain-Driven Design (Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, Ubiquitous Language), and inter-service communication (REST vs gRPC vs GraphQL, queues vs streams, timeout budgets, circuit breakers, bulkheads). The course also dives deep into data ownership (Database Per Service, CQRS, materialized views, eventual consistency, expand-contract migrations) and distributed transactions (Saga orchestration vs choreography, compensating transactions, Transactional Outbox, idempotency with Inbox pattern, dead-letter queues)—providing 47 patterns and 21 interview problems to help you ace microservices-focused system design interviews at FAANG and beyond.