05Intermediate
API Architecture
Design evolvable contracts and choose REST, GraphQL, gRPC, streaming, or webhooks by constraint.
7 modulesIn production
Complete curriculum
Two first-class disciplines. One architecture mindset.
Start with software systems or move into production generative AI. Each track progresses from foundations to enterprise design and a defended capstone.
TRACK 01
Software Architecture Mastery
Progress from architecture fundamentals to enterprise system design, governance, and technical leadership.
30chapters82hestimated
01Beginner
Foundations of Software Architecture
Understand architecture as a set of consequential decisions shaped by business goals and quality attributes.
3 modules · 12 lessons2.5h
02Beginner
Software Design Principles
Build maintainable systems through cohesion, dependency control, and pragmatic simplicity.
5 modules · 11 lessons2.9h
03Intermediate
Application Architecture
Compare layered, clean, hexagonal, modular, vertical-slice, CQRS, and domain-driven approaches.
7 modules · 15 lessons3.9h
04Intermediate
Monoliths and Microservices
Choose service boundaries and deployment models without falling into distributed-monolith traps.
7 modules · 15 lessons3.9h
06Intermediate
API Gateway and Reverse Proxy
Place routing, policy, aggregation, and resilience at the right network boundary.
6 modulesIn production
07Intermediate
Identity and Access Management
Reason about identity flows, tokens, federation, and authorization models.
7 modulesIn production
08Intermediate
Database Architecture
Select and scale data stores using workload, consistency, and operational trade-offs.
7 modulesIn production
09Intermediate
Caching
Improve latency and capacity while managing invalidation, stampedes, and consistency.
6 modulesIn production
10Advanced
Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture
Build reliable asynchronous flows with queues, streams, retries, outbox, and sagas.
8 modulesIn production
11Advanced
Distributed Systems
Model latency, partial failure, consistency, consensus, clocks, and resilience.
7 modulesIn production
12Advanced
Resilience Patterns
Contain failures with timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and backpressure.
7 modulesIn production
13Advanced
Scalability and Performance
Evolve a system from hundreds to millions of users through evidence-based scaling.
6 modulesIn production
14Intermediate
Cloud Architecture
Apply cloud models, regions, managed services, serverless, and cloud-native practices without vendor lock-in.
6 modulesIn production
15Intermediate
Containers and Kubernetes
Understand container packaging and Kubernetes scheduling, networking, configuration, and scaling.
7 modulesIn production
16Intermediate
Observability
Use logs, metrics, traces, and service objectives to understand production behavior.
7 modulesIn production
17Advanced
Security Architecture
Design defense in depth across identity, transport, secrets, data, networks, and supply chain.
7 modulesIn production
18Advanced
Integration Architecture
Connect enterprise systems using APIs, messaging, batch, synchronization, and anti-corruption layers.
6 modulesIn production
19Intermediate
Frontend Architecture
Choose rendering, state, composition, and deployment strategies for modern frontends.
7 modulesIn production
20Advanced
Enterprise Architecture
Align business, application, data, and technology landscapes through governance and capability thinking.
6 modulesIn production
21Intermediate
Architecture Documentation
Communicate systems through fit-for-purpose diagrams, models, decisions, and design documents.
6 modulesIn production
22Intermediate
DevOps Architecture
Design reliable delivery systems using automation, artifacts, infrastructure as code, and safe releases.
7 modulesIn production
23Advanced
Data Architecture
Separate operational and analytical workloads and design trustworthy data platforms.
6 modulesIn production
24Advanced
Architecture Patterns
Use a reference library of proven structural, integration, resilience, and migration patterns.
7 modulesIn production
25Advanced
Architecture Anti-Patterns
Recognize failure-prone structures and organizational habits before they harden.
6 modulesIn production
26Advanced
System Design
Work through requirements, capacity, APIs, data, scaling, reliability, and trade-offs for real products.
8 modulesIn production
27Advanced
Architecture Decision Making
Practice choosing between technologies and patterns with explicit reasoning.
6 modulesIn production
28Advanced
Solution Architecture
Translate functional and non-functional requirements into a defensible solution across systems and stakeholders.
6 modulesIn production
29Expert
Architecture Quality Attributes
Make availability, performance, security, operability, and changeability measurable design drivers.
6 modulesIn production
30Expert
Architecture Capstone
Design and defend an enterprise-grade system from discovery through deployment and evolution.
6 modulesIn production
TRACK 02
AI Architecture and Generative AI Systems
Design, evaluate, secure, scale, and operate production AI systems from model fundamentals to enterprise agentic platforms.
30chapters77hestimated
01Beginner
AI Architecture Foundations
Frame AI applications, platforms, infrastructure, roles, and lifecycle as an architecture discipline.
5 modulesIn production
02Beginner
Large Language Model Fundamentals
Build architect-level intuition for tokens, context, transformers, sampling, prompts, tools, and multimodality.
7 modulesIn production
03Intermediate
LLM Application Architecture
Connect frontend, orchestration, gateway, models, state, retrieval, tools, guardrails, and telemetry.
6 modulesIn production
04Intermediate
Prompt Architecture
Manage prompts as tested, versioned, secure production artifacts.
7 modulesIn production
05Intermediate
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Ground model answers in governed knowledge through ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and augmentation.
6 modulesIn production
06Intermediate
Vector Databases
Choose vector infrastructure using search quality, filtering, scale, operations, and cost.
6 modulesIn production
07Advanced
Advanced RAG
Improve retrieval with rewriting, hybrid methods, hierarchy, graphs, agents, correction, and evaluation.
7 modulesIn production
08Intermediate
AI Agents
Understand tools, planning, memory, state, actions, observations, and bounded agent loops.
5 modulesIn production
09Advanced
Agentic Architecture Patterns
Select single-agent, router, supervisor, planner, reviewer, workflow, and human approval patterns.
7 modulesIn production
10Advanced
Multi-Agent Systems
Coordinate specialized agents using ownership, shared state, conflict controls, retries, review, and aggregation.
6 modulesIn production
11Advanced
AI Orchestration
Model reliable AI workflows with states, graphs, durable execution, tools, approvals, and retries.
6 modulesIn production
12Advanced
Memory in AI Systems
Persist only the memory that improves outcomes while respecting context limits, privacy, and expiration.
6 modulesIn production
13Advanced
AI Tools and Function Calling
Expose authorized enterprise capabilities through validated schemas and verifiable execution.
6 modulesIn production
14Advanced
Model Gateway Architecture
Centralize provider abstraction, routing, quotas, tracking, policy, caching, and fallbacks.
6 modulesIn production
15Advanced
Model Routing
Route requests by capability, quality, latency, cost, privacy, and failure behavior.
6 modulesIn production
16Intermediate
AI Caching
Reduce latency and spend using exact, semantic, response, embedding, retrieval, and prefix caches.
6 modulesIn production
17Advanced
AI Evaluation
Test probabilistic software with golden data, human judgment, automated judges, and outcome metrics.
7 modulesIn production
18Advanced
AI Observability
Trace prompts, models, retrieval, tools, agents, cost, errors, and user feedback.
7 modulesIn production
19Advanced
AI Security
Threat-model prompt injection, leakage, tool abuse, poisoning, supply chain, and excessive agency.
7 modulesIn production
20Advanced
AI Guardrails
Layer input, output, policy, privacy, tool, confidence, and human controls.
7 modulesIn production
21Expert
Enterprise AI Architecture
Compose shared gateways, retrieval, registries, evaluation, identity, governance, and cost controls.
6 modulesIn production
22Advanced
Private and Local AI
Combine cloud, self-hosted, local, air-gapped, and hybrid models around sovereignty and privacy.
6 modulesIn production
23Advanced
AI Infrastructure
Architect compute and serving for batch and real-time inference, scaling, queues, and availability.
7 modulesIn production
24Advanced
MLOps and LLMOps
Version data, models, prompts, experiments, evaluations, deployments, and rollouts.
7 modulesIn production
25Advanced
AI Cost Architecture
Balance token, embedding, vector, GPU, loop, and tool costs against quality and speed.
6 modulesIn production
26Advanced
AI Performance Architecture
Improve time-to-first-token and end-to-end latency across models, retrieval, tools, and queues.
6 modulesIn production
27Expert
AI Governance
Control AI risk through policy, approvals, inventory, data governance, audit, and oversight.
7 modulesIn production
28Expert
AI Architecture Decision Making
Choose RAG, tuning, workflows, agents, models, storage, memory, and approvals with explicit trade-offs.
7 modulesIn production
29Expert
AI System Design Challenges
Design secure, observable, evaluated AI assistants and multi-agent platforms for real enterprises.
7 modulesIn production
30Expert
AI Architecture Capstone
Design and defend a secure enterprise agentic AI platform end to end.
7 modulesIn production
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