Hey fellows!

So, I wasn't able to keep up my promise to write the article. However, I am giving a talk on that exact topic. This will be the course outline; suggestions and improvements are, as always, welcome!

• 1.1 Introduction

  • 1.1.1 The era of gory, and pain
  • 1.1.2 VMs kick in
  • 1.1.3 The fall of the virtual machine
  • 1.1.4 Shipping yard - containers

• 1.2 Application Architectures

  • 1.2.1 What are application architectures
  • 1.2.2 Types of architectures
    • 1.2.2.1 Monolithic
    • 1.2.2.2 Distributed
    • 1.2.2.3 Microservices
  • 1.2.3 An overview of microservices

• 2.1 High Availability

  • 2.1.1 Introduction to terms
  • 2.1.2 The what and the why?
  • 2.1.3 Load balancing
  • 2.1.4 Types of load balancing
    • 2.1.4.1 Layer 3/4
    • 2.1.4.2 Layer 7
    • 2.1.4.3 SSL terminated 3/4/7
  • 2.1.5 nginx vs. HAProxy
  • 2.1.6 Clusters
  • 2.1.7 The what/when/how of databases

• 2.2 Security

  • 2.2.1 It is important
  • 2.2.2 PCI DSS compliance
  • 2.2.3 Learning from a startup
  • 2.2.4 Types of SSL, and when to use them
  • 2.2.5 All about SSL (DEMO)
    • 2.2.5.1 Testing how secure your site is
    • 2.2.5.2 Cipher suites, terms, and more
    • 2.2.5.3 Making a site bullet proof

• 3.1 Our Design

• 4.1 Implementation (ALL DEMO)

  • 4.1.1 Implementing the Frontend
  • 4.1.2 The Redis layer
  • 4.1.3 Microservices
  • 4.1.4 Persistent Data stores
  • 4.1.5 Configuring the load balancers
  • 4.1.6 Tying it all together

• 4.2 Advanced Stuff with Docker

  • 4.2.1 Repositories
  • 4.2.2 Committing, and version management
  • 4.2.3 Docker clusters
  • 4.2.4 Logging

• 4.2 Questions