Course explains basic principles and concepts behind microservices architecture. It's for programmers and software achitects who want to deliver software faster using microservices. The course explains how IT development works today and how can be improved using microservices. Old style monolithic architecture is compared to microservices architecture. Advantages of microservices such as agility, technology heterogenity, resilience, scaling, deployment, composability, replaceability are explained. Course explains also disadvantages of microservices architecture.