What you'll learn:
- Master System Design Principles & Software Architecture Concepts — Learn Scalability, Reliability, Availability, Performance, Security to Build Resilient System
- Dive into Architectures + Microservices Architectural Patterns. Deep into Protocols/Implementations: gRPC, GraphQL, AMQP, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, SNS, Streaming
- Leverage AWS: Hands-on practicals with EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFront CDN and More, to implement cloud-based architectural solutions with resilence
- Learn Important Architectural Concepts - Stateful/stateless, Load Balancers, Fault Tolerance, Redundancy, Replication, Sharding, Partitioning, Consistency etc.
- AWS and Node.js Examples for Protocols/Implementations: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, SNS etc.
Are you ready to advance your career learning System Design, and want to transition from a developer to a software architect and transition from coding applications to architecting large-scale, high-performance systems?
This Software Architecture Course provides a complete journey, from mastering the fundamentals of software architecture and system design for developers to leveraging AWS cloud-native services in real-world scenarios.
This hands-on, in-depth software architecture online course equips you with the technical skills, architectural mindset, and cloud expertise needed to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective systems that meet modern enterprise needs.
What You’ll Learn:
Roles and Responsibilities:
Understand the key differences between Software Architect vs. Solutions Architect.
Explore Software Architecture vs. System Design.
Learn how to build and maintain an Architectural Vision.
AWS Cloud-Native Services:
Amazon IAM: User creation, role policies, and enabling MFA.
Cost Management: AWS Pricing Calculator, Budgets, and Free Tier usage.
Amazon EC2: Instance Types, EBS, Pricing Models (On-Demand, Reserved, Dedicated, and Savings Plans).
Storage Services: Amazon S3, S3 Storage Classes, Access Policies; EBS Volumes; and Amazon EFS.
Networking: Amazon VPC, Subnets, IGWs, and Availability Zones.
Load Balancing: ALB, NLB, and ELB with EC2 integration and cost analysis.
Databases: Amazon RDS (MySQL, Aurora), DynamoDB setup, and real EC2 connections.
Serverless: Build AWS Lambda functions with S3 triggers and CloudWatch logging.
API Gateway: Create and manage REST APIs and explore integration options.
Important System Design Concepts:
Stateful vs. Stateless Architectures
Load Balancer vs. Reverse Proxy
Fault Tolerance, Redundancy, Replication
Failure Detection & Recovery, Rollback vs. Roll Forward
Retry Mechanism, Timeouts, Health Checks, Fallback Mechanism
Rate Limiting
Database Redundancy, Partitioning, Sharding
Database Consistency Models, Consistent Hashing
Communication Protocols & Messaging:
HTTP Versions, REST, gRPC, GraphQL
AMQP, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka
Event-Driven & Data Streaming Systems
Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge
WebSockets
Architectural Styles & Patterns:
Client-Server, Layered (n-tier), Component-Based, Monolithic, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA),
Microservices Architecture
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Microservices Core Concepts:
Service Discovery, Load Balancer, API Gateway
Service Mesh, Configuration Server, Database Per Service
Circuit Breaker Pattern, SAGA Pattern, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Choreography Pattern, Aggregator Pattern, Backend for Frontend (BFF)
Comparison:
Monolith vs Microservices
SOA vs Microservices
Migration Techniques:
Decomposition Strategies
Strangler Pattern
Serverless Architecture
Design Patterns and AWS Compute Services
Security:
Authentication vs Authorization
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO)
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
AWS IAM Policies – Identity, Resource, and Session-based
Shared Responsibility Model
JWT (JSON Web Tokens) – Creation and Validation
Amazon Cognito, OAuth 2.0 vs OpenID Connect (OIDC)
Scalability:
Vertical vs. Horizontal Scaling
Auto Scaling with Amazon EC2 and ELB
AWS Application Auto Scaling
Relational Database Scalability: Challenges and Solutions
Scalability with Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DynamoDB
Best Practices for Scalable Design
Reliability:
Purpose, Benefits, and Trade-Offs
Measuring MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) and MTTF (Mean Time to Failure)
Building a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Strategy
Ensuring Network Reliability and Security
Availability:
Impacts and Challenges of Availability
Response Time Optimization
Active-Active vs. Active-Passive Clustering
Availability Implementation Using:
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3
Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora
Amazon DynamoDB
Globally Distributed Applications
Multi-Region Deployment
CDN via Amazon CloudFront
Performance:
Understanding Metrics: Speed, Latency, Throughput, Bandwidth
Using CloudWatch Metrics for Monitoring
Concurrency vs. Parallelism
Load Shedding, Request Batching
Lazy Loading vs. Eager Loading
Deployment Considerations
AWS-Specific Performance Tuning:
EC2 Placement Groups
Millisecond Latency Techniques
By the end of this Software Design and Architecture Course, you'll be equipped with the expertise to lead architecture decisions, design scalable cloud solutions, and deliver high-performing software systems for enterprise needs.
Who this course is for:
Developers or Senior Developers, who are passionate about advancing their careers in technology and want to learn System Design and Software Architectures.
Developers who want to gain hands-on experience with cloud-native services in the AWS platform.
