Gain insights into implementing practical software architectures, mastering key development methodologies, and distinguishing core principles, ensuring your skills remain relevant in the ever-evolving industry.

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Non-readable code? Non-practical architectures? Unclear requirements? Are you pulling your hair at this point?

These are exactly the sort of pitfalls this course serves to provide in-depth remediation for. Over your years of working in the software industry, numerous day-to-day challenges like these come and go. While the industry has been constantly transforming, some core principles and values remain amidst the advancing technologies. 

Through tried and tested approaches, you will learn how to practically implement 'Effective Software'. With a comprehensive compilation of key concepts in software development methodology, you will be left with essential techniques for becoming a better software craftsman. It is time to distinguish between the core and the noise, making your skills timeless!

Effective Software Development for Enterprise Applications

# Methods and principles

In this section, I will go over a couple of essential topics for building applications that need to run in the cloud.


## 12 factor

A [twelve-factor](https://12factor.net/) app is a methodology for building applications for the cloud out-of-the-box. I highly recommend that every software architect be familiar with this set of principles.

## Containerization

[Containerization](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/containerization) is a concept of designing and running an application as an independent unit that behaves the same way irrespective of the environment around it. In other words, you build a container once, and it produces the same results every time you deploy it. This behavior is a remarkable achievement for application quality as it eliminates most of the environment-specific technical issues that cause unplanned work and delay planned feature deliveries.

Besides quality improvements, containerization enables a horizontal scale, which is crucial for every modern software system.

A practical way of applying containerization to an application is to learn and utilize one of the container platforms, such as [Docker](https://www.docker.com/). The good news is that all container platforms follow the same principles, so it is not hard to understand the overall idea if you try only one of them.

I will not go into further details about containerization. Now that you understand its benefits and have an idea of where to start, you can take it from here and work on this notion on your own.

## Avoiding cloud vendor lock-in


Learn about all the aspects related to building applications on the cloud.

Fundamentals

Part I: Introduction

Part II: Crosscutting Concerns

Part III: From Customer Insights to Internal Requirements

Part IV: Design and Architecture

Part V: Implementation and Coding

Part VI: Testing and Quality Assurance

Part VII: Deployment

Part VIII: Maintenance and Support

Wrap-Up

Building Cloud-Ready Applications

Methods and principles

12 factor

Containerization