A single authentication service hiccup lasting 30 seconds cascaded through an entire AI platform for three hours, costing millions in revenue—all because engineering teams hadn't mapped their service dependencies or implemented systematic resilience practices.
Architect Resilient Microservices for AI Success
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Architect Resilient Microservices for AI Success
This course is part of AI Systems Reliability & Security Specialization
Instructors: Harshita Gulati
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What you'll learn
Proactive failure analysis builds anti-fragile systems that improve under stress instead of collapsing.
Data-driven optimization using RED metrics (Rate, Errors, Duration) drives performance gains and prevents outages.
Standardized microservice templates speed development while ensuring operational consistency and security compliance.
Resilient architecture comes from defining system boundaries, planning for failures, and implementing full observability.
Skills you'll gain
- Performance Tuning
- Service Level
- Application Performance Management
- Systems Development
- Performance Analysis
- Dependency Analysis
- Distributed Computing
- AI Security
- Continuous Monitoring
- Failure Mode And Effects Analysis
- System Monitoring
- Failure Analysis
- Performance Metric
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Microservices
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January 2026
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Learners will master systematic dependency analysis techniques to identify and prevent cascade failures in AI system architectures. Through hands-on application of FMEA principles and dependency mapping tools, learners will develop the skills to evaluate service relationships, assess failure propagation risks, and implement targeted safeguards that maintain system reliability under stress.
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Learners will develop expertise in RED metrics analysis (Rate, Errors, Duration) to systematically identify performance bottlenecks and prioritize optimization strategies in AI systems. By analyzing real performance data and applying strategic decision-making frameworks, learners will transform observability metrics into actionable improvements that enhance system performance and user experience.
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Learners will design and implement production-ready microservice templates that standardize logging, tracing, and security middleware across AI service ecosystems. Through practical template development exercises, learners will create reusable foundations that accelerate development velocity while ensuring operational consistency and enterprise-grade security standards.
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