Course outline

Seven sections, ~40 lessons, free forever.

1. Architecture Basics

The vocabulary, the trade-offs, and the mental models you'll use everywhere else in the course.

Foundation Concepts
Core Principles

2. Architectural Patterns

DDD, microservices, event-driven architecture, serverless, multi-tenancy. The vocabulary of modern SaaS architecture.

Domain-Driven Design
Architectural Styles

3. Networks & Communication

API styles, protocols, network components, service meshes, and how it all fits together in cloud VPCs.

4. Distributed Systems

Sharding, replication, CAP, consensus, distributed coordination, and how Kubernetes orchestrates the lot.

Core Concepts
Coordination & Infrastructure
Kubernetes & Orchestration

5. Data Storage & Processing

Database scalability, ACID vs BASE, isolation levels, message brokers, exactly-once semantics, and big-data pipelines.

Database Design
Messaging & Processing

6. Resilience & Observability

Redundancy, rate limiting, circuit breakers, bulkheads, the outbox pattern, and SRE practices.

Resilience Patterns
Operations & Monitoring

7. Security & Data Protection

AuthN/AuthZ, securing cloud-native applications, data at rest and in transit, compliance frameworks.