Milestone 3: Distributed Systems & Microservices

🟦 Milestone 3: Distributed Systems & Microservices

Learn how to scale your NestJS applications beyond a single process using Event-Driven Architecture.

🏗️ Core Modules

• Module 1: Transporters: Message Patterns and Event Patterns.
• Module 2: The Command Bus (CQRS): Separating Reads from Writes.

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Milestone Goal

By the end of this milestone, you will be able to design a system that survives failures and scales to handle massive traffic by using message brokers and asynchronous communication.

Tip

Professor’s Final Note: “A Monolith is easy to build but hard to scale. A Microservice is hard to build but easy to scale. Choose your weapon based on the size of the problem.”