With the advent of digital innovation, microservice architecture is becoming the default style for building enterprise applications. Designing applications with microservices provides businesses more freedom, flexibility, and resiliency than designing with traditional architecture. Adopting microservice architecture helps businesses build applications that are more scalable and fault tolerant. In this course, you'll learn about microservice, including the elements of microservice architecture and the many advantages it offers application designers. You'll also learn both the disadvantages of traditional monolithic architecture and the potential drawbacks of microservice architecture. And you'll learn about the characteristics of microservice architecture, as well as its benefits and trade-offs.

Organizations are subject to increasingly sophisticated network attacks that are occurring more and more frequently. And despite significant improvements in IT security, hackers and attackers are still able to exploit weaknesses in some computer networks - potentially resulting in major data breaches. In this course, you'll learn about the importance of defense in stopping hackers from accessing vital customer or business data. You'll discover the different types of computer network security threats to your organization, how these threats can be prevented, and how they can be detected if one breaches your computer security system.

One key digital innovation associated with increased smartphone usage is the use of mobile apps. People like their mobile apps. It's estimated that mobile device users are using apps 90% of the time their devices are in use. Mobile lets you reach people where they are, and where they want to be, which represents a huge marketing opportunity. That's why if your organization doesn't have a marketing strategy for tapping into the mobile app market, you're already behind. In this course, you'll learn about the importance of mobile marketing and of planning a mobile app strategy. You'll explore the different types of apps available, how to create marketing strategies to target each type, as well as the elements of a mobile app development framework.