The Microservices Architecture Map

From Domain-Driven Bounded Contexts and Circuit Breaker state machines to Saga compensating rollbacks, OpenTelemetry W3C tracing, and Envoy service meshes.

TRACK_01

Decomposition & Service Boundaries

Domain-Driven Design, Bounded Contexts, and Database-per-Service isolation patterns.

1 topics

Architecture / 01

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) & Database-per-Service

Decomposing monoliths into autonomous Bounded Contexts with isolated private datastores to prevent distributed monolith anti-patterns.

starterDeep dive

TRACK_02

Resilience & Fault Tolerance

Circuit breakers (Closed/Open/Half-Open), Bulkheads, Rate Limiting, and Jitter retries.

1 topics

Resilience / 01

Circuit Breakers, Bulkheads & Cascading Failures

Preventing total system collapse using 3-state Circuit Breakers (Closed, Open, Half-Open) and Bulkhead thread isolation.

intermediateDeep dive

TRACK_03

Distributed Transactions & Sagas

Compensating transactions, Orchestration FSMs, and Choreographed asynchronous sagas.

1 topics

Transactions / 01

The Saga Pattern: Orchestration vs Choreography

Managing distributed multi-service transactions without blocking Two-Phase Commit (2PC) using compensating rollback actions.

advancedDeep dive

TRACK_04

Observability & Distributed Tracing

OpenTelemetry W3C traceparents, Span IDs, and end-to-end waterfall latency localization.

1 topics

Observability / 01

Distributed Tracing & OpenTelemetry (Trace & Span IDs)

Correlating async requests across 50+ microservices using W3C Trace Context, Span IDs, and OpenTelemetry collectors.

intermediateDeep dive

TRACK_05

Protocols & Service Mesh

Binary gRPC Protobuf over HTTP/2, mTLS encryption, and Envoy sidecar proxy meshes.

1 topics

Service Mesh / 01

gRPC Protobuf & Service Mesh (Envoy Sidecars)

High-performance binary Protobuf serialization over HTTP/2 and mTLS traffic routing via Envoy sidecar proxies (Istio).

expertDeep dive

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