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

# Overview

**Architecture drivers** are the considerations that must be made for architecturally significant software systems. So, what are these considerations? How do we make this a complete process? 

Microsoft recommended one of these guidelines, known as the #key# architecture meta-frame:Microsoft® Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition (Patterns & Practices). 2009. Microsoft Press. #key#. Similar guidelines can be found within the #key# literature:Maciaszek, Leszek, Tomasz Skalniak, and Grzegorz Biziel. "A meta-architecture for service-oriented systems and applications." Fourth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design. 2014. #key# as well.
The architecture meta-frame can be considered as a checklist. It defines certain guidelines that define how to perform certain tasks. Using these guidelines, we can see our application, and decide which architectural style suits our needs best.


Get an overview of the architecture meta-frame.

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

Introduction to the Architecture Meta-Frame

Overview