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  • Microservices Mindset

    Microservices Mindset

    🧩 Microservices Decoded: Design Scalable Systems with Confidence

    🧾 Course Description

    Microservices architecture is the backbone of modern enterprise and cloud-native systems. In “Microservices Decoded”, you’ll learn how to design, build, and deploy distributed applications that are scalable, resilient, and independently deployable.

    This course covers everything from breaking a monolith into services, communication strategies, service discovery, and inter-service security — all explained with real-world scenarios, design patterns, and optional implementation using Spring Boot, Docker, and API Gateway.

    Whether you’re a developer, architect, or DevOps professional, this course will give you the conceptual clarity and system-level thinking needed to excel in a microservices environment.

    ✅ Key Benefits

    • 🧠 Think in Systems, Not Scripts — Learn to design modular, scalable architectures
    • 🔗 Build for Independence — Avoid bottlenecks by decoupling services
    • 📦 Polyglot Flexibility — Use the best tech stack for each service
    • 🚀 Deploy Faster & Smarter — Improve delivery with independent pipelines
    • 💥 Resilience by Design — Handle failures, retries, and distributed state like a pro

    🎯 Pre-requisites

    • Solid understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, and basic backend development
    • Familiarity with Java (Spring Boot) or any web framework (Node.js, Python, etc.)
    • Basic knowledge of Docker, Git, and CI/CD concepts recommended
    • Optional: exposure to monolithic app structure

    📚 Curriculum Breakdown

    🔧 Module 1: Introduction to Microservices

    • What are Microservices?
    • Monolith vs Microservices
    • Benefits & trade-offs of distributed architecture

    🧱 Module 2: Service Decomposition

    • Identifying service boundaries
    • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) basics
    • Bounded contexts and database-per-service pattern

    🌐 Module 3: Communication Between Services

    • RESTful HTTP, messaging queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
    • Synchronous vs asynchronous
    • Circuit breakers, retries, fallbacks

    🔁 Module 4: Service Discovery and API Gateway

    • Centralized routing with API Gateway
    • Load balancing and dynamic service discovery
    • Netflix Eureka, Consul (conceptual)

    🔒 Module 5: Security and Config Management

    • Inter-service authentication (JWT, OAuth2)
    • Centralized config with Spring Cloud Config or Vault
    • Environment-specific configurations

    ⚙️ Module 6: Observability & Monitoring

    • Centralized logging with ELK
    • Distributed tracing (Zipkin, Jaeger)
    • Metrics collection (Prometheus, Grafana)

    🧪 Module 7: Practical Microservice Project (Spring Boot-based)

    • Build 3 microservices (e.g., User, Order, Inventory)
    • Use REST communication
    • Add service registry + config server + gateway
    • Include fault tolerance (Hystrix/resilience4j)
    • Deploy using Docker + Docker Compose

    ⏱️ Estimated Duration

    Daily Study TimeEstimated DurationNotes
    2 hours/day15–18 days (~3 weeks)Ideal for professionals & part-timers
    4 hours/day8–9 days (~1.5 weeks)Balanced theory + practice
    6 hours/day5–6 days (bootcamp)Project-heavy accelerated learning

    🎓 Outcome

    By the end of Microservices Decoded, you will:

    • Understand microservice design principles, trade-offs, and best practices
    • Decompose monoliths into maintainable, scalable services
    • Handle inter-service communication, observability, and service failure
    • Be ready to work on enterprise-grade microservice systems using Spring Boot, Docker, and cloud platforms
  • Spring Boot: Fast-track backend development

    Spring Boot: Fast-track backend development

    🌱 Spring Boot: Fast-Track Backend Development with Spring Boot

    🧾 Course Description

    Spring Boot is the go-to framework for building robust, scalable, and production-grade backend applications in Java. In “Spring Into Microservices”, you’ll master the Spring Boot ecosystem — including dependency injection, REST APIs, data access, security, and deployment.

    This course is designed for developers with Java fundamentals who want to rapidly create and deploy enterprise-grade web applications. You’ll build real APIs, connect to databases, and learn to structure your code for long-term maintainability. Whether you’re aiming for backend roles, microservices architecture, or full-stack with Java, this course is your launchpad.

    ✅ Key Benefits

    • 🚀 Build Real-World Backend Apps — Quickly create REST APIs and connect to databases
    • 🔗 Spring Ecosystem Mastery — Understand how Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Spring Security work together
    • 🧩 Microservices Ready — Learn modular, loosely coupled design practices
    • 💼 In-Demand Skillset — Spring Boot is widely used in enterprise, banking, and SaaS systems
    • 🛠️ Project-Based Learning — Build a production-style app with features like auth, error handling, and environment configs

    🎯 Pre-requisites

    • Solid knowledge of Java programming
    • Comfortable with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
    • Familiarity with basic REST API concepts, HTTP methods
    • Optional: understanding of relational databases and SQL

    📚 Curriculum Breakdown

    📘 Module 1: Introduction & Setup

    • What is Spring Boot and why use it?
    • Installing JDK, Spring CLI, IntelliJ/VS Code
    • Project scaffolding using Spring Initializr

    🌱 Module 2: Spring Boot Fundamentals

    • Understanding annotations: @SpringBootApplication, @Component, @Autowired
    • Dependency Injection & IoC container
    • Application properties and configuration

    🌐 Module 3: Building REST APIs

    • Creating controllers with @RestController
    • CRUD operations with @GetMapping, @PostMapping, etc.
    • Request/response objects and path variables

    🗃️ Module 4: Spring Data JPA & Database Access

    • Connecting to MySQL or H2
    • Defining entities with @Entity
    • Repository interfaces with JpaRepository
    • Basic query methods and relationships

    🧾 Module 5: Input Validation & Exception Handling

    • Validating inputs with @Valid, @NotNull, etc.
    • Custom error messages
    • Global exception handling with @ControllerAdvice

    🔐 Module 6: Spring Security (Intro)

    • Authentication vs Authorization
    • Adding basic login & password protection
    • Securing endpoints

    🔌 Module 7: Project – Employee Management System

    • Full CRUD with DB
    • Form validation
    • Custom error responses
    • Role-based access control (optional)
    • Deploy to Heroku / Render / Railway

    🕒 Estimated Duration (with hands-on)

    Daily Study TimeDurationLearning Mode
    2 hours/day20–24 days (~1 month)Light pace, ideal for working professionals
    4 hours/day10–12 days (~2 weeks)Balanced pace for serious learners
    6 hours/day6–8 days (intensive)Fast-track bootcamp style learning

    🧪 Optional Deep Dive: Add 2–3 more days for JWT auth, API versioning, Docker packaging

    🎓 Outcome

    By the end of Spring Into Microservices, you’ll:

    • Build secure, production-ready REST APIs using Spring Boot
    • Work with databases using JPA and repositories
    • Understand layered backend app structure (Controller–Service–Repository)
    • Be ready for Java-based backend jobs, microservices, or Spring Cloud
  • Java: Java Foundations for Programmers

    Java: Java Foundations for Programmers

    ☕ Java Foundations: Build Scalable Logic for Real-World Applications

    🧾 Course Description

    Java is one of the most powerful, reliable, and widely-used programming languages in the world — and a go-to language for enterprise systems, Android apps, web backends, and financial software.

    In “Java Foundations”, you’ll learn Java step by step, from basic syntax and OOP concepts to real-world application development. Designed for beginners and early-stage developers, this course builds a strong base in logic building, code structure, and problem-solving — setting the stage for advanced tools like Spring Boot, Android, or microservices.

    Whether you’re new to programming or transitioning from another language, this course will help you think like a developer and write clean, efficient Java code.

    ✅ Key Benefits

    • ☑️ Strongly Typed & Object-Oriented — Learn core principles of modern software design
    • 🧠 Structured Thinking — Ideal for building problem-solving and analytical skills
    • 🧩 Foundation for Spring, Android, and Backend Dev — Essential for tech careers
    • 🛠️ Hands-On Learning — Work on real examples and mini-projects
    • 🌍 Platform Independent — Learn a language used in global enterprises
    • 🚀 Boost Your Career — In demand for backend, finance, mobile, and more

    🧩 Curriculum Breakdown

    🔧 Module 1: Introduction to Java

    • What is Java? Why use it?
    • Java Development Kit (JDK) and setting up IntelliJ/Eclipse
    • First program: Hello World

    🔢 Module 2: Variables, Data Types & Operators

    • Primitive types: int, double, char, boolean
    • Type conversion and casting
    • Arithmetic and logical operators

    🔁 Module 3: Control Flow

    • if, else-if, switch-case
    • Loops: for, while, do-while
    • Nested structures

    🧠 Module 4: Object-Oriented Programming

    • Classes and Objects
    • Methods and Parameters
    • Constructors
    • Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, Abstraction

    🗃️ Module 5: Arrays, Collections & Strings

    • Arrays: 1D and 2D
    • String manipulation and methods
    • Lists, Sets, and Maps (Intro to Java Collections Framework)

    ⚙️ Module 6: Exception Handling & File I/O

    • try-catch-finally blocks
    • Throwing exceptions
    • Reading/writing text files with FileReader/FileWriter or Scanner/PrintWriter

    🛠️ Module 7: Mini Projects

    • Project 1: Student Grade Calculator
    • Project 2: Library Management Console App
    • Project 3: Employee Payroll (uses arrays, loops, and classes)

    🎓 Outcome

    By the end of Java Foundations, you’ll:

    • Write clean, modular Java programs using OOP principles
    • Build mini-console applications with input/output and file handling
    • Be ready to learn Spring Boot, Android Development, or Java-based microservices
    • Understand how Java fits into large-scale system architectures
  • Python & Flask: Flask Tales about Python on the Web

    Python & Flask: Flask Tales about Python on the Web

    🐍🌐 Flask Tales: Python-Powered Web Development

    🧾 Course Description

    Take your Python skills to the web! In “Flask Tales”, you’ll learn how to build dynamic, data-driven web applications using Python and the minimalist yet powerful Flask framework.

    Starting from basic routing and templating, you’ll move into database integration, form handling, RESTful APIs, and deploying your app to the internet. This course is perfect for Python learners who want to transition into backend web development or build full-stack apps with a lightweight and flexible approach.

    By the end, you’ll have a fully functional web app that connects to a database, handles user input, and delivers real value — all written in pure Python.

    ✅ Key Benefits

    • 🐍 Use Python on the Web — Leverage the language you already love for building web apps
    • 🌐 Minimal but Powerful — Flask is flexible, fast, and beginner-friendly
    • 🧱 Learn Web App Structure — Routing, views, templates, static files, forms
    • 🗃️ Database Integration — Use SQLite or PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy
    • 📦 RESTful API Development — Build APIs and connect them to frontends
    • 🚀 Deployment Ready — Push your app to the web using free or paid platforms

    🧩 Curriculum Breakdown

    🔧 Module 1: Flask & Python Refresher

    • Flask overview: what & why
    • Installing Flask, setting up the environment
    • Python basics: functions, lists, dictionaries, loops (for newcomers)

    🌐 Module 2: Routing & Templates

    • Creating routes (@app.route)
    • Returning HTML responses
    • Using Jinja2 templating for dynamic content
    • Static files (CSS, images, JS)

    🧾 Module 3: Forms & User Input

    • Creating HTML forms
    • Handling POST requests in Flask
    • Flash messages and redirects
    • Validating form data

    🗃️ Module 4: Databases & Models

    • Connecting to SQLite using SQLAlchemy
    • Creating models, relationships, migrations
    • Reading and writing data to the DB

    🔁 Module 5: REST API with Flask

    • Structuring RESTful endpoints
    • Sending and receiving JSON
    • Connecting with frontends or external tools (Postman, JS)

    🔒 Module 6: Authentication (Optional Add-on)

    • User registration and login
    • Session management
    • Protecting routes

    🚀 Module 7: Project — Task Manager Web App

    • User authentication (if enabled)
    • Add/edit/delete tasks with DB storage
    • Search, filter, and sort tasks
    • REST API for task updates
    • Host on Render / Heroku / PythonAnywhere

    🎓 Outcome

    By the end of Flask Tales, you’ll:

    • Build and deploy a live Python web app
    • Understand how the backend interacts with users and data
    • Be ready to integrate Flask with frontend frameworks (React, Vue)
    • Be equipped to build dashboards, SaaS apps, or RESTful services using Python
  • Python: Think like a coder

    Python: Think like a coder

    🐍 Python Foundations: Code Anything, Start Anywhere

    🧾 Course Description

    Python is the most beginner-friendly programming language in the world — and the backbone of countless technologies from web development to AI. In “Python Foundations”, you’ll master the core programming concepts while building real-world mini-projects step-by-step.

    No prior coding experience? No problem. This course is crafted to be gentle yet deep, helping you build confidence and fluency in Python syntax, logic building, functions, data structures, and more.

    Whether you’re aiming for a tech job, data science career, automation, or backend development — Python is the perfect starting point.

    ✅ Key Benefits

    • 🧠 Perfect for First-Time Programmers — Learn core concepts that apply to all programming
    • 🐍 Intuitive Syntax — Python is readable, elegant, and powerful
    • 🔁 Build Logical Thinking — Conditionals, loops, and control flows made simple
    • 🧰 Hands-On Practice — Solve challenges and build portfolio-worthy projects
    • 🔗 Apply Anywhere — Python works for automation, web, AI, finance, and more
    • 🚀 Gateway to Django, Flask, and AI/ML — Ideal base for advanced learning

    🧩 Curriculum Breakdown

    🧱 Module 1: Python Basics

    • Installing Python & writing your first script
    • Variables, data types (int, float, string, bool)
    • Input/output operations

    🔁 Module 2: Control Flow

    • Conditional statements: if, elif, else
    • Loops: for and while
    • Nesting conditions and loops

    ⚙️ Module 3: Functions & Modularity

    • Defining and calling functions
    • Arguments, return values
    • Scope and lifetime

    📦 Module 4: Data Structures

    • Lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries
    • Built-in methods (append, sort, keys, values)
    • Iterating through collections

    📂 Module 5: Files & Error Handling

    • Reading from and writing to files
    • Try/except blocks
    • Basic debugging practices

    🧪 Module 6: Working with External Modules

    • Using pip and virtual environments
    • Popular libraries: math, datetime, random
    • Writing your own Python modules

    🔨 Module 7: Mini Projects

    • Project 1: Quiz Game (Conditionals, Functions)
    • Project 2: Expense Tracker (File handling + Lists)
    • Project 3: Password Generator (Loops + Random module)

    🎓 Outcome

    By the end of Python Foundations, you’ll:

    • Be able to write Python scripts confidently
    • Understand programming logic, syntax, and problem-solving techniques
    • Build real-world utilities and mini-apps
    • Be ready to move into web development (Flask/Django), data science, or automation
  • Express.js: API Highway with Express

    Express.js: API Highway with Express

    🚦 API Highway with Express: Build Scalable Backends with Node.js

    🧾 Course Description

    Express.js is the fast, minimalist web framework that powers much of today’s server-side JavaScript. In “API Highway with Express”, you’ll go beyond Node basics and learn how to build robust, scalable, and maintainable RESTful APIs using Express.

    You’ll start with routing and middleware, and progress into advanced concepts like API structuring, environment handling, data validation, and integration with databases like MongoDB. The course is loaded with practical exercises and real-world projects that mimic production-ready backend setups.

    Whether you’re looking to build your own API or work in a full-stack team, this course will set you on the right track — fast.

    ✅ Key Benefits

    • ⚡ Lightweight & Fast Learning Curve — Perfect next step after learning Node.js
    • 🌐 Build RESTful APIs the Right Way — Handle routes, queries, and dynamic data
    • 🧱 Modular App Structure — Learn scalable backend architecture
    • 🧪 Integrate with Frontend & Databases — Complete the full-stack pipeline
    • 🔐 Middleware Mastery — Authentication, error handling, and more
    • 🧰 Hands-On Project Included — Apply what you learn to build a real-world service

    🧩 Curriculum Breakdown

    🚀 Module 1: Express Basics

    • What is Express and why use it?
    • Installing and setting up Express
    • Creating your first server with express()

    🧭 Module 2: Routing Essentials

    • GET, POST, PUT, DELETE routes
    • Route parameters and query strings
    • Serving static files

    🧰 Module 3: Middleware & Request Handling

    • Built-in vs custom middleware
    • Request logging and body parsing (express.json())
    • Handling errors gracefully

    🗃️ Module 4: Modular Structure & Environment Variables

    • Organizing routes, controllers, services
    • Using .env files and config
    • Setting up Express apps for scale

    🔐 Module 5: Data Validation & Error Handling

    • Validating input with Joi or express-validator
    • Standardizing error responses
    • Catching async errors

    🔗 Module 6: Integrating MongoDB (Intro)

    • Connecting to MongoDB using mongoose
    • Creating models and performing CRUD operations

    🔌 Module 7: API Project

    • Project: Build a Book Catalog API
      • RESTful endpoints (CRUD)
      • Use of middleware, routing, error handling
      • MongoDB database for persistence
      • Test with Postman

    🎓 Outcome

    By the end of API Highway with Express, you’ll:

    • Build complete, production-style REST APIs with routing, logic, and error control
    • Understand how middleware and API architecture work in scalable Node apps
    • Be able to integrate with frontend apps (React, Angular, etc.)
    • Be ready to move into MERN stack development, JWT auth, or GraphQL APIs
  • Node.js: Server-side starter pack

    Node.js: Server-side starter pack

    🔧 Server-Side Starter Pack: Learn Node.js from Scratch

    🧾 Course Description

    Every modern web application needs a brain — a backend that handles logic, data, and communication. In “Server-Side Starter Pack”, you’ll dive into Node.js, the powerful JavaScript runtime built for scalable, fast, and modern backend development.

    This beginner-friendly course teaches you how to build real-world backend services using Node.js, understand the request-response lifecycle, work with files, and build REST APIs from the ground up — all using JavaScript.

    If you’re already familiar with frontend JavaScript, this course will help you complete the picture and become a full-stack-ready developer.

    ✅ Key Benefits

    • 🖥️ Write Server Code in JavaScript — One language across frontend and backend
    • 🔁 Understand HTTP Internals — Learn how servers handle requests & responses
    • 📦 Use npm & Modules — Master package management and modularization
    • 🔗 Build REST APIs — Create endpoints and connect with frontends
    • 🛠️ Hands-On Projects — Apply concepts in real-world examples
    • 🚀 Foundation for Express, MongoDB, and Full-Stack Apps

    🧩 Curriculum Breakdown

    🔌 Module 1: Introduction to Node.js

    • What is Node.js and where is it used?
    • Setting up Node.js and npm
    • Writing your first server

    📁 Module 2: Core Modules & File System

    • Using fs, path, and os
    • Reading/writing files
    • Handling file uploads (intro)

    🔁 Module 3: Events & Streams

    • Understanding the EventEmitter pattern
    • Streams and buffers

    🌐 Module 4: HTTP Module & Web Servers

    • Creating a basic web server with http
    • Handling routes manually
    • Serving HTML pages

    🧱 Module 5: Working with npm

    • What is npm? How to use it
    • Installing and using third-party packages
    • Scripts and environment variables

    📦 Module 6: Building a REST API

    • Structuring an API
    • Creating endpoints (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
    • Sending JSON responses

    🛡️ Module 7: Error Handling & Middleware (Intro)

    • Synchronous and async error handling
    • Custom error messages
    • Introduction to middleware logic

    🧪 Module 8: Project – Build a Notes API

    • Full REST API with CRUD operations
    • Store notes in JSON (no database)
    • Test using Postman

    🎓 Outcome

    By the end of Server-Side Starter Pack, you’ll:

    • Understand how backend logic works using Node.js
    • Be able to create APIs for frontend apps
    • Be ready to dive into Express.js, MongoDB, or build complete MERN-stack apps