Welcome
What will you learn in this course?
Who is the course for and prerequisites
Deep Dive: Solution Architecture
Master solution architecture and turn business needs into scalable, maintainable systems.
About This Course
Enhance your solution architecture skills in this hands-on course that will help you transform business requirements
into scaleable systems. From the development of a new enterprise application to refactoring an existing one, you will
gain useful lessons for making sound architectural decisions based on business value along with technical excellence.
You will begin by building modular monoliths by using modern patterns that allow for future growth, as well as by
structuring the system rightly, being integral, and making it easy for communication among the components. The course
will walk you through architectural maturity, with particular emphasis on observability for continuous improvement and
the right time to transition from monoliths to microservices. You will study event-driven patterns like the Outbox
Pattern and how to implement strategies for synchronous and asynchronous communication. You'll also develop systems
thinking skills with the help of methods such as Event Storming and C4 modeling to manage technical and social
complexity. By getting your decisions right with Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), you'll be prepared to design
systems in line with business objectives and evolving conditions. Your skills as a solution architect are about to
level up! In this in-depth course, you'll be an art and science master of solution architecture by gaining knowledge
to transform business requirements into robust, scalable, and sustainable systems.
No matter if you're building your first business app or refactoring a legacy system, this course provides pragmatic
guidance on architecting trade-offs that reconcile technical quality with business value.
Course Curriculum
4h 35m 9 sections
Why we start here
Modules not layers
Fitness functions to enforce architecture
Module to module communication
Data patterns for modularity
Seeing inside the box
Fitness functions to enforce requirements
Living Documentation
Wrap up
When metrics lie
Observability driven improvements
Preparing for evoloution part 1
Preparing for evoloution part 2
Strategic Decisions in Microservice Evolution
Using events for evoloution
The Outbox Pattern
Public vs private events
Dealing with errors
Observability driven improvements part 2
Architecture separation of concerns
Wrap up
Reflections on Architectural Complexity
Essential vs. Accidental Complexity
Synchronous Service Resilience
Asynchronous Service Resilience
Enhancing System Resilience: Balancing Caching and HTTP Requests
Understanding Idempotency in Distributed Systems
Balancing Technical and Social Complexity
Architecting Success: Bridging Business and Technology
The Pitfalls of Over-Engineering
The Art of Systems Thinking for Architects
Understanding Domains through Storytelling
Unlocking Business Insights with Event Storming
C4 Modelling Uncovered
From User Journeys to Architecture
Effective technology choices
The Serverless Spectrum
Balancing Serverless Functions and Containers
Modularity For Flexibility
Make smart decisions to solve real problems
Stateless processes and data lock-in
The hidden factor in technology choices
Simplifying Architecture
Introduction
Resume Driven Development
Navigating the architects elevator
Guardrails not mandates
Golden paths to enable teams
Understand architecture decision records
Navigating chaos in software architecture
Modularity, your #1 concern
Building evolvable architectures
A case study in flexibility
Conclusion
Meet Your Instructor
James Eastham
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