Delve into software architecture, exploring key principles, patterns, and quality attributes. Gain insights with case studies and projects, enhancing your practical skills in system design and optimization.

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This course offers a deep dive into the world of software architecture. It’s designed to equip software developers and architects with the knowledge and skills necessary to create, evaluate, and optimize software systems. The course covers a range of critical topics to ensure a strong foundation in architectural principles and strategies.

You will start by exploring architectural concepts and the relationship between quality attributes, requirements, and architectural styles. You’ll also examine different architectural patterns and strategies, including centralized and decentralized architecture, layered pattern, broker pattern, and microservices. Then, you’ll go into the details of important quality attributes needed while developing an architecture.

The course is equipped with multiple case studies and two projects to further enhance learning. These real-world scenarios and hands-on projects are strategically incorporated to give learners practical insights.

Software Architecture in Applications

A web-based company, XYZ Inc., is experiencing a surge in web traffic and is struggling to handle the load on its servers. The company has a total of 10 servers, but the load isn't distributed evenly across them. Some servers are overloaded, while others are underutilized.

### Objective

 The company needs to implement a load-balancing algorithm that can distribute traffic evenly across all the servers and ensure that no single server is overloaded.

In the notepad provided below, discuss the best approach and the reasoning for your answer. 

Review what we’ve learned so far through a case study.


Getting Started

The Architecture Meta-Frame

Architectural Styles and Strategies

Architectural Styles and Strategies

Scalability

Availability

Load Balancing

A Basic Load Balancer

Security

Caching

Web Architecture

Case Studies

A Basic MVC Data Flow

Conclusion

Case Study: Improving UX and Performance through Load Balancing

Objective