Learn Software Architecture In-depth and Start Architecting

You will learn the basics, the meaning, and the importance of software architecture.

• Properties of good architecture
• Forces acting on software and its architecture

You will learn what are architecture requirements or architecturally significant requirements?

• How they are part of software requirements?
• Different type of software requirements
• What are quality attributes of software? Eg. Reliability
• What are quality attribute requirements or non-functional requirements?
• Elements through which architecture requirements are expressed

You will learn about business goals and architecture attributes, and how to capture architecture requirements in terms of them as architecture scenarios.

• Why business goals are important to the architect
• Architecture attributes explained - performance, scalability, availability, recoverability, usability, accessibility portability, interoperability, manageability, security maintainability, flexibility
• Architecture scenarios for availability and scalability

You will learn about other forces impacting the software system architecture such as constraints, architecture principles, and standards.

• Architecture scenarios for performance
• Types of architecture constraints
• Interaction of forces among architecture attributes

This lecture initiates you into how to document software architecture. It informs you about the well-known architecture content frameworks used to represent architectures.

• Importance of architecture perspectives
• Overview of 4+1 view, Zachman framework, ISO RM-ODP, Bass

You will learn three of the five significant perspectives used for effective software architecture creation and documentation

• Functional architecture
• Logical architecture
• Technical architecture

You will learn the remaining two of the five significant perspectives used for effective software architecture creation and documentation

• Physical architecture
• Implementation architecture

This lecture helps you understand and differentiate the different levels of architecture in an enterprise, and appreciate the value of abstraction in architecture

• Enterprise architecture
• Solution architecture
• Software architecture

In this lecture, you will see documented examples for the significant architecture perspectives, for a fictitious software system.

You will learn what is the output or deliverable of the software architecture work

• Structure of software architecture document
• Sections documented in the architecture deliverable

You will learn the common techniques you can use across the various architecture perspectives, to create software architecture

• Architecture principles
• Evaluating architectural decision options
• Analysing risk

In this lecture, you will learn how to understand the current context and analyse it, as key steps towards coming up with the functional architecture.

• Business context
• Stakeholders
• Business processes
• Optimization tactics

You will learn how to arrive at high-level solution as a collection of functional components to complete the functional architecture.

• Use-cases
• Conceptualizing solution

You will learn the different activities you can perform to arrive at the logical architecture.

This lecture will take you in detail, through the common principles used in the logical architecture.

• “SOLID” principles
• Principle of Loose Coupling
• Principle of High Cohesion
• Principle of Information Hiding
• Separation of Concerns
• Law of Demeter
• Stability Principle
• Principle of Inversion of Control (IOC)

You will learn what are architectural styles, how they are useful to you, and see two architectural styles in detail.

• Architectural styles and examples
• Domain Driven Design style
• Platform Architecture style

You will learn about the microservices architectural style in detail with an example.

You will learn what are architectural patterns and how they are useful to you in creating software architecture.

You will learn the different activities you can perform to arrive at the technical architecture.

This lecture will help you learn about the various architecture types used in the technical architecture.

• Monolithic
• Distributed
• Multi-tier or n-tier
• Thin client
• Thick client

You will learn the well-known approaches to integration architecture - that is, how to integrate the system components with each other and/or with other systems.

• File transfer
• Shared database
• Remote call or RPC
• Messaging
• Synchronous
• Asynchronous

In this lecture, you will learn what are requirement patterns and the commonly used architectural approaches to address them.

• Online transactions
• Offline transactions
• Inquiry
• Data Analysis

You will appreciate the use of frameworks, both third party and in-house developed, for common functionalities in technical architecture.

You will learn the different activities you can perform to arrive at the physical architecture.

• Deployment

This lecture helps you understand the concepts related to the performance and scalability architecture attributes. You will also learn how capacity planning is done in the physical architecture.

• Sizing
• Queues

You will learn some of the commonly used tactics for meeting system behavioral architecture attributes such as performance, scalability, reliability, and availability, to arrive at the physical architecture.

• Optimization
• Caching
• Concurrent processing
• Resource pooling
• Resource augmentation
• Redundancy
• Rescheduling
• Workload shifting

You will learn the load-balancing tactic for meeting system behavioral architecture attributes, to arrive at the physical architecture.

This lecture will help you learn the partitioning tactic for meeting system behavioral architecture attributes, to arrive at the physical architecture.

• Tier partitioning
• Application partitioning

You will learn about the serverless computing architectural pattern in detail with an example, to arrive at the physical architecture.

• Different types; FaaS (Function as a Service), BaaS or MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service)
• Benefits
• Types of resources

You will learn about the containerization architectural pattern in detail with an example, to arrive at the physical architecture.

• Concept of containers
• Example of container environment
• Benefits
• Support for DevOps
• Differences between containers and virtual machines (VM)

You will learn some of the commonly used tactics for meeting the security and manageability architecture attributes, to arrive at the physical architecture.

• Security measures
• Authentication and authorisation
• Encryption / secure channels
• Obfuscation
• Data sensitivity based classification
• DMZ (demilitarized zones)
• Logging
• Monitoring
• Error reporting
• Tools for manageability

You will learn the different aspects you need to focus on to arrive at the implementation architecture.

This lecture broadly covers the role of architecture work in different types of software life-cycle (SDLC) processes such as waterfall, iterative, and agile.

You will learn the different steps in the architecture process and how the architecture process fits in the software development life-cycle SDLC.

• Scope the architecture
• Define the architecture
• Implement the architecture
• Verify the architecture

This lecture helps you understand what is software design, and how it is, related to and distinct from, software architecture.

• What does software design address?
• Design patterns
• Differences between software architecture and software design

You will learn the flavors of architecture work in different types of SDLC such as iterative, agile and also in some ad hoc occasions.

• Architecture dependent activities in SDLC and the respective stakeholders