Fast Microservices

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This project is part of the liveProject series Fast Microservices with Kotlin
prerequisites
basic IDE knowledge • basic Spring and Spring Boot • intermediate Maven • basic Docker and Docker Compose • basic Java or Kotlin • REST principles • basic microservices
skills learned
understand the different mechanisms of cache • determine where to use one mechanism of cache instead another one
Andres Sacco
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · BEGINNER
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You’re a senior developer at Travel World Agency (TWA), which has grown to become the largest travel agency in the world. The company has built a next-generation system that uses a microservice architecture running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). But while TWA’s success has been steadily climbing, the performance of its reservation microservice has been losing altitude. As a solution, TWA has replaced the microservice with a new one. Your job is to improve performance by leveraging cache mechanisms, including the Caffeine, Varnish, and Redis libraries, that will reduce traffic between APIs.

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Andres Sacco

Andres Sacco is a technical leader at Prisma. He has experience with many programming languages including Java, PHP, and Node.js. At his previous job, Andres helped find alternative ways to optimize data transfers between microservices, which reduced the cost of infrastructure by fifty-five percent. A co-author of Beginning Scala 3, published by Apress, Andres has also dictated internal courses about new technologies and shared his expertise in articles on Medium.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for Java and Kotlin developers interested in learning to leverage cache mechanisms to improve API performance. To begin these liveProjects you’ll need to be familiar with the following:

TOOLS
  • Any IDE: IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse
  • Basic Spring and Spring Boot
  • Intermediate Maven
  • Basic Docker and Docker Compose
TECHNIQUES
  • Basic knowledge of Java or Kotlin
  • Basic knowledge of Spring Boot and how to add new modules
  • Basic Docker and Docker Compose commands
  • REST principles
  • Basic knowledge of microservices

you will learn

In this liveProject, you’ll learn to use cache mechanisms to improve API performance by reducing traffic between microservices.

  • Work with a cache that saves the information in an external service
  • Caching best practices
  • The pros and cons of each cache mechanism

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