Gain insights into real-world microservice implementation, exploring tech stacks, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and more. Learn about synchronous and asynchronous integrations with hands-on coding demonstrations.

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Microservices are one of the most important software architecture trends, but it’s one thing to define an architecture and quite another to implement it. 

This course focuses on the nitty-gritty details of real-world implementation. You’ll learn recipes for tech stacks that can be used to implement microservices, as well as the pros and cons of each. 

You’ll start by exploring some fundamental concepts for implementing microservices. Within each concept, you’ll learn about the different technologies used to implement it. The technologies include: Frontend Integration with Edge Side Includes (ESI), asynchronous microservices with Kafka and REST feeds, synchronous microservices with the Netflix stack and Consul, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry. Each technology you learn about is described and then demonstrated with real code. 

By the end of this course, you’ll be a microservice pro. Whether you’re a software engineer or an engineering manager, this course will prove useful throughout your career.

Microservice Architecture: Practical Implementation

# Self-contained systems

Self-contained systems (SCS) (see
[chapter 2](https://www.educative.io/courses/microservice-architecture-practical-implementation/introduction-YQJj9mnzlEO)) particularly focus on frontend integration.

# Links & transclusion
The next chapters discuss the different variations for frontend
integration. [Chapter 8](#chapter-links-javascript) shows how links
and transclusion work on the client side. 


# Edge side includes

[Chapter 5](https://www.educative.io/courses/microservice-architecture-practical-implementation/introduction-my1gkQxlvYE)
demonstrates the integration on the server-side with ESI (Edge Side
Includes).

Typically, a microservices system also uses synchronous communication ([chapter 9](https://www.educative.io/courses/microservice-architecture-practical-implementation/introduction)) or asynchronous communication ([chapter 6](https://www.educative.io/courses/microservice-architecture-practical-implementation/introduction-3wEPzo7AADQ)) in addition to frontend integration. The use of several integration approaches is common and easily possible.

Ultimately, the browser only needs to access the various backends via
HTTP. This means that **frontend integration puts few constraints on the technologies used**.

In this lesson, we'll touch on some variations of the approaches discussed in this chapter.


Preface

Self-contained Systems

Concept: Frontend Integration

Recipe: Links and Client-side Integration

Recipe: Server-side Integration using Edge Side Includes (ESI)

Concept: Asynchronous Microservices

Recipe: Messaging and Kafka

Recipe: Asynchronous Communication with Atom and REST

Concept: Synchronous Microservices

Recipe: REST with the Netflix Stack

Recipe: REST with Consul and Apache httpd

Concept: Microservices Platforms

Recipe: Docker Containers with Kubernetes

Recipe: PaaS with Cloud Foundry

Appendix

Variations

Self-contained systems