Knowledge

The student...

has good knowledge of the different benefits, drawbacks, and tradeoffs of monolithic and service oriented styles of software architecture
understands and can discuss the tradeoffs of synchronous and asynchronous systems.
understands and can discuss the impact of Microservice Architectures on essential system characteristics, like maintainability, flexibility, scalability
understands and can discuss the impact of decision made regarding software architecture, selection of tools, and use pattens on the performance of the system they are developing
understands and can discuss the changes that need to be made to the software development process as a result of adopting Microservice Architectures
understands and can discuss continuous delivery, testing, and security in the context of distributed systems

Skills

The student...

is able to design, implement, and deploy a system along the lines of Microservice Architectures
is able to use the relevant tools to the development, deployment, and maintenance of distributed software systems
can discuss, plan, and implement the re-design of a monolithic software system into a distributed system in line with Microservice Architectural concepts
can plan and implement components specific to service-oriented systems (e.g. gateways, load balancing, containerisation and deployment with Docker, continuous delivery).
can publish, present, and discuss their solution

General competence

The student...

has broad understanding of the tools relevant to software development and communication within a software development context. This includes communication, version management and collaboration (git and GitHub), containerisation and deployment (Docker), testing of distributed systems (Cucumber)
has an understanding of the wider software development process, and the impact that the choice of Microservice Architectures has on that process (e.g. requirement engineering, software verification and validation, and deployment and maintenance in the context of distributed systems)
can design, present, and justify their solution to a given problem
can successfully collaborate in the context of a software development team
can successfully collaborate as a representative of a team with other teams
can keep track of their work and contributions using software development processes like agile, and use them to manage their activities

Subject description PG3402

Microservices