Week-8.md

Week 8: Microservices

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the advantages of microservices architectures
2. Give an example of a cascading failure
3. Explain the key features of a Circuit Breaker
4. Describe the purpose of bulkheads in resilient systems

Mandatory Lecture Materials

Slides are on Canvas.

Video lessons for the materials are here

Mandatory Reading

Chapter 9 of course book

Optional Reading

1. Release it!, 2nd Edition, Michael Nygaard
2. Chapter 1 and 2, Building Microservices, Sam Newman, O'Reilly Publishing (available online at Snell library)
3. Cloud Design Patterns

Labs

Lab 7 Tomcat and MySQL

Lab 8 Circuit Breaker Experiments

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