This course is designed to help you master the skills of designing and building cloud-native applications.

Observe first hand the end-to-end process of building a sample cloud-native application using React, Go, MongoDB, and Docker. By taking this course you'll not only get to see firsthand the skills required to create a robust, enterprise-grade, cloud-native application, but you'll also be able to apply them yourself as all code and deployment assets are available for you to perform your own deployment:

Source Code:
https://github.com/cloudacademy/voteapp-frontend-react
https://github.com/cloudacademy/voteapp-api-go

Full Install Script:
https://github.com/cloudacademy/language-vote-app

Learning Objectives

What you'll learn:

Understand the basic principles of building cloud-native applications
Understand the benefits of using React for frontend web development
Understand the benefits of using Go for backend API development
Understand the benefits of using MongoDB as a database system
And finally, you’ll learn how to package and run microservices as lightweight containers using Docker

Demonstration

This training course provides you with several hands-on demonstrations where you will observe first hand how to

Build a React-based web frontend
Build a Go-based API
Deploy and configure a MongoDB database
Deploy the full end-to-end application to Docker running locally

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of web-based software development
Previous exposure to containers and containerization - in particular, docker

Intended Audience

Anyone interested in learning how to architect cloud-native applications
Anyone interested in using modern development tools such as React, Go, MongoDB and Docker
Anyone interested in containerization
DevOps Practitioners