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

**Microservices architecture** is a design pattern in which a website or application is divided into smaller, independent components known as **microservices** that may be created and deployed individually. This approach to web architecture is designed to improve the scalability, maintainability, and flexibility of an application by allowing different components to be developed, tested, and deployed independently.

# Components of microservices architecture
There are several key components that make up a microservices architecture. These include the following:
 
## Microservices

 These are the smaller, independent components of the application, which are designed to perform a specific function or task. Each microservice is self-contained and communicates with other microservices through well-defined APIs.
 
## API gateway

 This is the component that sits between the client and microservices, routing requests from the client to the appropriate microservice and returning the response to the client. The API gateway can also handle tasks such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.
 
## Service registry

This is a component that maintains a list of all of the available microservices and their current status. This allows the API gateway to route requests to the appropriate microservice and ensures that the application can continue to function even if some microservices are unavailable.
 
## Load balancer

This is a component that distributes incoming requests evenly across multiple instances of a microservice, improving the performance and scalability of the application.
 
## Database

This is a system for storing and organizing data, such as user information or content for the website. Each microservice typically has its own database, allowing it to be more independent and scalable.

Get an overview of microservices architecture, along with its 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

Microservices

Overview

Components of microservices architecture

Microservices

API gateway

Architectural Styles and Strategies

A Basic Load Balancer

A Basic MVC Data Flow

Microservices

​​Overview

Components of microservices architecture

Microservices

API gateway

Overview