What you need to know

- [Instructor] This course is designed as an architectural focused, code agnostic offering, and as such, your knowledge is centered around what you know about the underlying technologies at play. There is a little prerequisite knowledge that I expect you to have before we start this course. I would expect you to have a solid grasp on the microservices architectural models before you begin this course. If you feel you need some help there, or even just a refresher, consider watching my course, Microservices Foundations, available here in the LinkedIn Learning Catalog. I would also expect you to have some basic understanding of restful communications over HTTP, and really, the important aspect here is the HTTP part. If you understand how TCP/IP work, especially in the context of HTTP, the better prepared you will be when identifying where these asynchronous patterns can help you in your system. I'm going to also expect you to understand the very basics of asynchronous messaging. I don't need you to understand RabbitMQ, JMS, or Kafka, just some base conceptual understanding of messaging in computer systems. Now let's get some work done with asynchronous messaging in microservices.