Norfolk Developers: Micro Services Full Day Workshop

What: Micro Services Full Day Workshop

When: Tuesday, July 28, 2015, 10:00am to 4:45pm

Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH

Price: £20.00/per person

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/222837405/

This full-day workshop will introduce the concepts and practices of designing and delivering applications composed of independently executing micro-services.

By the end of the workshop, you will have developed a component of a larger application, using Docker at every step of the process from development and testing through to deployment in Amazon Web Services.

Steve Engledow is head of software delivery for Proxama's cloud platform which is composed of services developed in a variety of languages but with a strong leaning towards Python.

Intro: 1 hour

Micro-services - what, why, and how?

What are micro-services?
Why split applications up into micro-services?
How to break an application into in(ter)dependent components

Workshop: 3 hours

Developing a micro-service using Docker

Quick intro to Docker
Using Docker in development
Building containers for the full development cycle
Using docker-compose to ease integration

Workshop: 2 hours

Deploying a stack of micro-services into AWS
Overview of AWS tools
Using Docker with AWS
Deploying and linking a stack of components.

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