Introduction to Spring Cloud

• Overview of microservices architecture and its benefits
• Introduction to Spring Cloud and its role in building cloud-native applications
• Understanding the key components of Spring Cloud

Service Discovery with Eureka

• Setting up a service registry with Eureka
• Registering services and discovering them dynamically
• Implementing client-side service load balancing

Load Balancing with Ribbon

• Configuring load balancing with Ribbon
• Implementing client-side load balancing for microservices
• Integrating Ribbon with service discovery

Fault Tolerance with Hystrix

• Implementing fault tolerance patterns with Hystrix
• Circuit breaker pattern for resilient microservices
• Handling fallback and bulkhead scenarios

API Gateway with Zuul

• Setting up an API gateway with Zuul
• Implementing routing, filtering, and request aggregation
• Securing the API gateway with Spring Security

Distributed Configuration with Spring Cloud Config

• Centralized configuration management with Spring Cloud Config
• Configuring and refreshing microservices dynamically
• Using Git or other backends for configuration storage

Distributed Tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Tracing requests across microservices with Spring Cloud Sleuth
• Integrating with distributed tracing systems like Zipkin or Jaeger
• Analyzing and troubleshooting distributed transactions

Service-to-Service Communication with Feign

• Simplifying service-to-service communication with Feign
• Declarative REST clients and service contracts
• Integrating Feign with service discovery and load balancing

Event-Driven Microservices with Spring Cloud Stream

• Implementing event-driven architectures with Spring Cloud Stream
• Building and consuming message-driven microservices
• Integrating with message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ

Distributed Messaging with Spring Cloud Bus

• Implementing distributed messaging with Spring Cloud Bus
• Broadcasting configuration updates across multiple services
• Coordinating actions across microservices using bus events

Security and Authorization with Spring Cloud Security

• Implementing security and authorization in microservices
• Securing communication between microservices
• Using OAuth 2.0 or JWT for authentication and authorization

Containerization and Orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes

• Packaging microservices as Docker containers
• Deploying and managing microservices with Kubernetes
• Configuring service discovery and load balancing in Kubernetes

Monitoring and Observability with Spring Cloud

• Monitoring microservices with Spring Boot Actuator
• Collecting and analyzing metrics with Micrometer
• Tracing requests with distributed tracing systems

API Documentation and Contract-First Development

• Documenting microservices using Swagger or OpenAPI
• Implementing contract-first development with Spring Cloud Contract
• Generating client code and contract stubs

Circuit Breaker Dashboard with Hystrix Dashboard or Turbine

• Visualizing circuit breaker metrics with Hystrix Dashboard
• Aggregating metrics across multiple microservices with Turbine
• Monitoring circuit breaker health and performance

Deployment and Continuous Integration

• Packaging and deploying microservices with Spring Cloud
• Setting up CI/CD pipelines for microservices
• Managing multiple environments (dev, staging, production)

Microservices Best Practices and Patterns

• Applying best practices for designing microservices
• Implementing domain-driven design and bounded contexts
• Handling cross-cutting concerns like logging, monitoring, and error handling