Learning path

Course description

Pip.Services is a toolkit used to create microservices. This course provides the student with the basic elements necessary to use it efficiently. The student will learn how to create custom components, use available components, containerize an application, and connect to it via different clients. The course consists of seven modules that are taught in four days (32 hours).

Day 1

1. Introduction: Concepts, History, Architecture, Building Blocks
   a. Brief introduction to Pip.Services
   b. Building blocks: a brief description
   c. Toolkit architecture

2. Basic Patterns: Components, Configurations, Reflection, …
   a. Three-tier architecture
   b. Creating a component
   c. Communicating between components
   d. Configurations

      Optional (Self-study)

      i. Configuring connections
     ii. Configuring credentials
    iii. Config file syntax
    iv. Descriptors
     v. Discovery services
    vi. Connection utilities
    vii. Mustache templates
   viii. Reflection

Day 2

3. Persistence:
   a. Choose one of the following:
         i. Memory
            - Memory Persistence Component
            - Redis
            - Memcached
         ii. File storage
            - JSON file persistence
         iii. Document storage
            - MongoDB
         iv. Relational storage
            - MySQL
            - PostgreSQL
            - SQLServer
         v. Other
            - Cassandra
   b. Designing persistence components

4. Business Logic: Controllers, Observability, Synchronization, Caching, States… a. Controllers
   b. Observability:
         i. Logging
         Optional (Self-study)
         ii. Metrics
            - Prometheus
            - Datadog
            - Elasticsearch
            - Fluentd
   c. Concurrency
         i. Caching
         Optional (Self-study)
         ii. Locking

Day 3

5. Communication: REST, GRPC, Commandable
   a. Synchronous
         i. REST
         Optional (Self-study)
         ii. gRPC
        iii. Commandable HTTP
        iv. Commandable gRPC
         v. Command sets
   b. Asynchronous
      Choose one of the following:
         i. Messaging
        ii. MQTT
       iii. Kafka
       iv. RabbitMQ

Day 4

6. Containers: Process, Docker, Serverless
   a. Containers
         i. Process container
         Optional (Self-study)
         ii. Docker
   b. Serverless
   Choose one of the following:
        iii. AWS Lambda
         iv. Microsoft Azure
          v. Google Cloud Platform
7. Clients:
   a. REST client
   Optional (Self-study)
   a. Direct client
   b. Commandable HTTP
   c. gRPC
   d. Commandable gRPC
   e. Mock