Microservices

Advanced

Design systems that scale

When to split a monolith, how services talk over gRPC, and the resilience patterns — timeouts, retries, circuit breakers — that keep distributed systems alive.

3 lessons·~43 min·285 XP

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Monolith vs. Microservices

The real trade-offs — and why 'distributed' isn't free.

12 min

+80 XP

Service-to-Service with gRPC

Protobuf contracts, code generation, and typed RPCs in Go.

15 min

+95 XP

Resilience Patterns

Timeouts, retries with backoff, and the circuit breaker.

16 min

+110 XP