Software Architecture Design

What You Will Learn

• 1 Learn the core concepts, terminology, and responsibilities of software architecture
• 2 Identify and apply architectural styles including layered, microservices, and event-driven
• 3 Analyze quality attributes such as scalability, availability, and security through trade-off analysis
• 4 Translate business requirements into domain models and architectural drivers
• 5 Design component-and-connector structures that satisfy functional and quality requirements
• 6 Understand data architecture patterns for consistency, partitioning, and distributed storage
• 7 Design APIs and integration contracts that enable loose coupling and interoperability
• 8 Apply security principles including threat modeling, authentication, and data protection
• 9 Evaluate and optimize architecture for performance, scalability, and resource efficiency
• 10 Document and communicate architecture decisions using standard viewpoints and methods