Microservices with Azure Service Fabric

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that helps you to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. During this course we will look at the basics of microservice architectures and Actor-based programming models, all the way up to building distributed & scalable stateless and stateful microservices with horizontal scalability and zero downtime. The course will be hands-on and teach you how to design, develop and deploy your microservices architecture to both Microsoft Azure and local Service Fabric clusters.

Course outline:

Microservices concepts

• Why Microservices?
• Anatomy of a Microservice
• Containers
• Benefits of a Microservices architecture

Overview of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric (ASF)

• The need for Orchestration
• Container Deployment & Orchestration with ASF

Getting Started with ASF

• Visual Studio 2015/2017 and ASF SDK
• Creating an ASF cluster

Stateless vs Stateful Services: And / Or?

• What is a Stateless Service?
• What is a Stateful Service?
• When to use both
• Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Services

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) & ASF

• Low-touch Workflows
• Runtime Deployment

Reliable Services Framework

• Choosing a Communication Stack
• WCF-based communication
• ASP.NET Core
• Web API & OWIN
• Remoting and non-Microsoft services

Reliable Actor Framework

• The Actor Design Pattern - benefits & constraints
• Overview of Threading
• Concurrency
• Distributed Systems
• Actor Lifecycle
• Garbage Collection
• Failover

Going Live

• Deploying to ASF
• Monitoring & Debugging
• Scaling up

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