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
**Micro-frontends** is an architecture style that includes dividing the frontend of a website or application into smaller, independent components, or "micro-frontends," that may be created and deployed individually. This approach is similar to microservices architecture, but it's applied to the frontend of the application rather than the backend.


 
# Advantages of micro-frontends
There are several advantages of using a micro-frontends architecture. These include the following:
 
+ **Scalability:** Because micro-frontends are independent components that can be scaled up or down as needed, it's easier to scale micro-frontends architecture than monolithic architecture. This is because changes to one micro-frontend don't affect the others, allowing the application to grow and evolve more easily.
 
+ **Maintainability:** Because micro-frontends are independent components that can be updated or modified without affecting the rest of the application, it's easier to maintain micro-frontends architecture than monolithic architecture. This allows the application to adapt to changing requirements or technologies more easily.
 
+ **Flexibility:** Because micro-frontends are independent components that can be reused or repurposed for other projects, it's easier to reuse or repurpose individual micro-frontends than components in a monolithic architecture. This allows the application to be more flexible and adaptable to changing requirements or technologies.
 
+ **Ease of testing:** Because micro-frontends are independent components, it's easier to test individual micro-frontends than the entire frontend in a monolithic architecture. This can save time and effort when testing and debugging the application.

# Disadvantages of micro-frontends
However, there are also several disadvantages of using micro-frontends architecture. These include the following:
 
+ **Complexity:** Micro-frontends architecture can be more complex to develop and deploy than monolithic architecture because it involves breaking the frontend of the application down into smaller, independent components. This can require more coordination and communication between developers, as well as more complex infrastructure to support the distributed nature of the frontend.
 
+ **Increased overhead:** Because micro-frontends are independent components, there's often more overhead involved in coordinating and communicating between micro-frontends than in monolithic architecture. This can increase the complexity and cost of developing and maintaining the application.
 
+ **Difficulty debugging:** Because micro-frontends are independent components, it can be more difficult to debug problems in micro-frontends architecture than in monolithic architecture. This is because problems may involve interactions between multiple micro-frontends, making it more difficult to identify and fix the root cause.

The table below compares micro-frontends with microservices. 




Get an overview of micro-frontends, along with their pros and cons.

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

Micro-Frontends

Overview

Advantages of micro-frontends