Building Production-Grade Microservices
Akinkunmi OkunolaSenior Software Engineer | 10+ years in Fintech | Previously @ Interswitch10+ years
Limited to 20 students
Small cohort for personalized feedback.
Is this the right fit for you?
Wholesession cohorts are intensive and high-level. We want to ensure you're in the right room to get the most out of this experience.
Ideal for you if...
- You're a mid-level backend engineer (2-5 years experience): You can build APIs and features, but struggle with system design and architecture. You want to reach senior-level thinking.
- You've built REST APIs but never designed a distributed system: You understand CRUD operations but don't know how to handle inter-service communication, data consistency, or resilience patterns.
- You fail system design interviews: You can code but can't architect. You know syntax but don't understand production trade-offs. This is holding you back from senior roles.
- You want hands-on, production-focused learning: You're tired of toy tutorials and todo apps. You want to build real systems that handle scale, failures, and real-world complexity.
- You can commit 11 hours/week for 8 weeks 4 hours for live sessions (Tuesdays/Thursdays 6-8pm WAT) + 7 hours for assignments and capstone work. You're serious about leveling up.
Not for you if...
- You're a complete beginner: If you haven't built a REST API before or are still learning basic programming syntax, you're not ready. Start with fundamentals first.
- You want a quick 2-week crash course: This is 8 weeks of intensive learning with weekly assignments and a capstone project. There are no shortcuts to senior-level skills.
- You just want certificates: We don't offer certificates. You'll build a production-grade portfolio project that proves your skills—which matters more to employers than paper.
- You can't commit to live sessions: This is a live cohort experience. While sessions are recorded, the value is in showing up, asking questions, and learning with your peers.
- You're looking for passive video consumption: This requires active participation: coding, debugging, building, presenting. If you just want to watch videos, this isn't it.
Stop failing system design interviews
## 🚀Learn how to build scalable microservices for real-world production
You can build features. You understand REST APIs. But when asked "how would you design a payment system that handles 100K transactions per second?" — you freeze.
The gap isn't your coding skills. It's architectural thinking.
This 8-week cohort teaches you how production systems actually work — from an engineer who built them at scale in fintech.
Build. Deploy. Present. Level up.
What makes this course unique is its strong emphasis on:
✔️Real-world trade-offs
✔️Operational challenges
✔️Production lessons learned from systems serving millions of users
🔨What you'll build
Your capstone: A production-ready microservices system that demonstrates architectural thinking, not just coding ability.
Examples of past capstone projects:
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E-commerce platform with inventory management, order processing, and payment integration
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Real-time notification system handling 10K+ events/second
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Multi-tenant SaaS backend with authentication, rate limiting, and monitoring
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Banking transaction processor with idempotency and audit trails
You'll implement:
✔️Service-to-service communication (REST + message queues)
✔️Circuit breakers and graceful degradation
✔️Distributed data consistency patterns
✔️Security (OAuth, API keys, mTLS)
✔️Full observability (metrics, logs, traces)
✔️CI/CD pipeline with automated testing
Demo Day: Present your system architecture to a panel of senior engineers. Defend your design decisions. Get feedback that mirrors real technical interviews. This becomes your portfolio piece — the project that proves you can architect, not just code.
🧠How it works
Each week follows a 2 hour session:
Tuesdays: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Thursdays: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
QnA Sessions