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Vladimir Chavkov

Go Microservices Architecture Training

Design and build production-grade distributed microservices with Go in this comprehensive 4-day training. Learn service decomposition, inter-service communication, resilience patterns, observability, and deployment strategies for Go-based microservice architectures.

Duration4 days (32 hours)
LevelAdvanced
DeliveryIn-person, Live online, Hybrid
CertificationN/A
  • Senior Go developers building distributed systems
  • Software architects designing microservice platforms
  • Backend engineers scaling monoliths to microservices
  • DevOps engineers supporting Go microservice deployments
  • Technical leads making architecture decisions

After completing this training, you’ll be able to:

  • Decompose domains into well-bounded microservices
  • Implement synchronous (gRPC) and asynchronous (messaging) communication
  • Apply resilience patterns (circuit breaker, retry, bulkhead)
  • Instrument services with distributed tracing and metrics
  • Deploy microservices with Kubernetes and service mesh
  • Design event-driven architectures with Go

Day 1: Microservice Design and Communication

Section titled “Day 1: Microservice Design and Communication”

Module 1: Microservice Design Principles

  • Domain-driven design and bounded contexts
  • Service decomposition strategies
  • API contracts and versioning
  • Hands-on: Decompose a monolith into service boundaries

Module 2: Synchronous Communication

  • gRPC service-to-service communication
  • Protocol Buffers and code generation
  • Service discovery and load balancing
  • Hands-on: Build communicating gRPC services

Module 3: API Gateway Patterns

  • Gateway routing and aggregation
  • Rate limiting and authentication at the edge
  • Request transformation and protocol translation
  • Hands-on: Implement an API gateway with Go

Day 2: Asynchronous Communication and Data

Section titled “Day 2: Asynchronous Communication and Data”

Module 4: Message-Driven Architecture

  • Event-driven vs message-driven patterns
  • Apache Kafka integration with Go
  • NATS and NATS JetStream
  • Hands-on: Build event-driven services with NATS

Module 5: Event Sourcing and CQRS

  • Event sourcing fundamentals
  • Command Query Responsibility Segregation
  • Event store implementation in Go
  • Hands-on: Implement event sourcing for an order service

Module 6: Data Management

  • Database per service pattern
  • Saga pattern for distributed transactions
  • Data consistency strategies
  • Hands-on: Implement a saga with compensating transactions

Module 7: Resilience Patterns

  • Circuit breaker pattern (gobreaker)
  • Retry with exponential backoff
  • Bulkhead and timeout patterns
  • Hands-on: Add resilience to inter-service calls

Module 8: Distributed Tracing

  • OpenTelemetry SDK for Go
  • Trace propagation across services
  • Span attributes and events
  • Jaeger and Tempo backends
  • Hands-on: Instrument services with distributed tracing

Module 9: Metrics and Monitoring

  • Prometheus client for Go
  • Custom metrics (counters, histograms, gauges)
  • Grafana dashboards for microservices
  • Alerting rules and SLOs
  • Hands-on: Build a monitoring stack for the microservice platform

Day 4: Deployment, Service Mesh, and Operations

Section titled “Day 4: Deployment, Service Mesh, and Operations”

Module 10: Kubernetes Deployment

  • Kubernetes manifests for Go microservices
  • ConfigMaps, Secrets, and environment configuration
  • Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
  • Hands-on: Deploy microservices to Kubernetes

Module 11: Service Mesh

  • Istio and Linkerd fundamentals
  • mTLS and service identity
  • Traffic management and canary deployments
  • Hands-on: Add Istio service mesh to the platform

Module 12: Production Operations

  • Centralized logging with structured logs
  • Incident response and runbooks
  • Capacity planning and load testing
  • Hands-on: Capstone — deploy and operate a complete microservice platform
  • Strong Go development experience
  • Go Web Services & APIs or equivalent
  • Understanding of distributed systems concepts
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes basics
FormatDescription
In-PersonOn-site at your company’s location, hands-on with direct interaction
Live OnlineInteractive virtual sessions with screen sharing and real-time labs
HybridCombination of on-site and remote sessions, flexible scheduling

All formats include hands-on labs, course materials, reference architectures, starter code, and post-training support.