🧭 Stage 1: Foundations of Microservices

✅ 1. Monolith vs Microservices

• What is a monolith?
• Problems with monoliths at scale
• Introduction to Microservices
• Key benefits: scalability, fault isolation, independent deployability

✅ 2. Microservices Core Principles

• Single Responsibility Principle
• Decentralized data management
• Service autonomy
• API-first design
• Smart endpoints, dumb pipes
• Culture of automation (CI/CD, testing)

✅ 3. Key Terminologies

• Service Registry & Discovery
• API Gateway
• Circuit Breaker