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APIs & Microservices Architecture

Progress from clean HTTP REST design and OpenAPI contracts to API gateways, message brokers, circuit breakers, and microservice observability.

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Practical Equipment & Study Requirements
What laptop, phone, internet, and free tools you need for this field—plus cloud options if your device is low-spec.
8GB+ Laptop + Docker / Cloud
Laptop / PC Specs

Minimum: 4GB–8GB RAM laptop using Postman Web & Codespaces.

Recommended: 16GB RAM laptop for running multiple local containers & brokers.

Free Cloud Option: Play with Docker, Hoppscotch.io & GitHub Codespaces run in browser.

Phone & Internet

Laptop Essential

Read Microservices.io on phone; building & tracing multi-service APIs needs a laptop.

Internet: 3–5 Mbps.

Free Software & Hardware Kit
Docker Desktop Hoppscotch / Postman Swagger Editor VS Code

Hardware / Kit: None required.

Best Way to Study This Field Easily: Finish each study step and its hands-on milestone first—your Mastery Test unlocks automatically at the end to qualify for your certificate.
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Advanced Stage

Production patterns, architecture, automation, and security rigor.

Step 5 advanced ~14 hrs

Asynchronous Messaging, Events & Sagas

Decouple services cleanly with message queues (RabbitMQ/Kafka/Redis) and eventual consistency.

What You Will Learn
  • Pub/sub events vs RPC/gRPC
  • Outbox pattern & Saga compensations
Free Public Courses & Official Docs
Microservices.io: Saga & Outbox
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Hands-On Milestone Project: Build a 2-service order + notification flow connected by an async queue.
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APIs & Microservices Architecture — Practical Mastery Assessment

Score 80% or higher (5 scenario questions) + submit your real practical capstone project after at least 7 days of study to earn a Verified MESHLUMA Certificate.

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