Advanced Developing on AWS

3 days

English

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The Advanced Developing on AWS course uses the real-world scenario of taking a legacy, on-premises monolithic application and refactoring it into a serverless microservices architecture.

Content

This three-day advanced course covers advanced development topics such as architecting for a cloud-native environment; deconstructing on-premises, legacy applications and repackaging them into cloud-based, cloud-native architectures; and applying the tenets of the Twelve-Factor Application methodology.

Day 1
Module 1: The cloud journey

Common off-cloud architecture
Introduction to Cloud Air
Monolithic architecture
Migration to the cloud
Guardrails
The six Rs of migration
The Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
Architectural styles and patterns
Overview of AWS Services
Interfacing with AWS Services
Authentication
Infrastructure as code and Elastic Beanstalk
Demo: Walk through creating base infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation in the AWS console
Hands-on lab: Deploy your monolith application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Module 2: Gaining Agility

DevOps
CI/CD
Application configuration
Secrets management
CI/CD Services in AWS
Demo: AWS Secrets Manager

Day 2
Module 3: Monolith to MicroServices

Microservices
Serverless
A look at Cloud Air
Microservices using Lambda and API Gateway
SAM
Strangling the Monolith
Hands-on lab: Using AWS Lambda to develop microservices

Module 4: Polyglot Persistence & Distributed Complexity

Polyglot persistence
DynamoDB best practices
Distributed complexity
Step functions

Day 3
Module 5: Resilience and Scale

Decentralized data stores
Amazon SQS
Amazon SNS
Amazon Kinesis Streams
AWS IoT Message Broker
Serverless event bus
Event sourcing and CQRS
Designing for resilience in the cloud
Hands-on lab: Exploring the AWS messaging options

Module 6: Security and Observability

Serverless Compute with AWS Lambda
Authentication with Amazon Cognito
Debugging and traceability
Hands-on lab: Developing microservices on AWS
Hands-on lab: Automating deployments with Cloud Formation

Benefits

Analyzing a monolithic application architecture to determine logical or programmatic break points where the application can be broken up across different AWS services
Applying Twelve-Factor Application manifesto concepts and steps while migrating from a monolithic architecture
Recommending the appropriate AWS services to develop a microservices based cloud native application
Using the AWS API, CLI, and SDKs to monitor and manage AWS services
Migrating a monolithic application to a microservices application using the 6 Rs of migration
Explaining the SysOps and DevOps interdependencies necessary to deploy a microservices application in AWS

Instructor

Vladimir Sabo

Henrique Alves

Methods

This course is delivered through a mix of classroom training and labs.

Note: A laptop is required in order to complete technical lab exercises; tablets are not appropriate.

Who should attend

This course is intended for the following job roles:

Developer
DevOps

We recommend that attendees of this course have attended the following course (or equivalent knowlege): Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS