
Define software architecture as the art and science of designing and delivering valuable technology strategy, distinguishing it from technology specialists by focusing on business value and a blueprint of components.
Explore how software architecture blends business strategy, quality attributes, and trade-offs into a living design. Build a foundation through discovery, context, and human dynamics to deliver maximum business value.
Balance quality attributes with business drivers and regulatory compliance to design systems, from requirements discovery to bottom-of-the-iceberg trade-offs, including internationalization and GDPR considerations.
Explore designing software architectures by focusing on quality attributes, stakeholder viewpoints, and architectural trade-offs. Learn to decompose requirements, consider constraints, patterns, and multiple designs against business drivers.
Explore infrastructure design foundations for software architecture, covering platforms, governance, servers, networks, development operations, and learn how to evaluate technology options against quality attributes and design patterns.
Are you a developer (any level starting from associate till specialist / lead) looking to transition yourself into that architect? Then this course is for you.
Software architecture is not just about the design & block diagrams. Software Architecture is a practice that helps the business team realize the value using technology strategy. One who enables the business team realize the value using technology strategy is "The Architect".
This course provides the foundation level aspects required for a software architect to follow a structured approach to build software systems that is evidence based, unbiased and adheres to industry standards. The course has been split into 5 parts:
What is software architecture? Clarifying the ambiguity surrounding the practice.
What are the pillars of the software architecture?
Section 1 - Quality Attributes
Section 2 - Design Methodology, Patterns and Styles.
Section 3 - Environment and Infrastructure.
You will learn the pre-requisites before designing, especially on how to perform viewpoint analysis, how to balance quality attributes, basics of trade-off analysis, pattern needs and much more in this 1-hour content packed session.
The above provides the basic need for any aspiring architect to start contributing towards the architecture practice.
The second level course shall comprise of business architecture, which discusses about the business fundamentals, competitive advantage, business strategy execution and much more for the architects to specialize in business architecture stream.