Software Architecture 3 days Training Course

Day 1: Cloud Fundamentals and Essential Services

Section I: Foundations of Cloud Architecture

1. Key principles of cloud architecture and non-functional requirements (availability, scalability, security, performance).
2. Cloud adoption strategies and associated trade-offs: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and the shared responsibility model.
3. Components of Azure architecture: Regions, Resource Groups, and Resources.
4. Designing mission-critical systems and defining disaster recovery targets (RTO, RPO).

Section II: Essential Cloud Services

1. Foundations of storage and data: Azure Table Storage and Azure Cosmos DB.
2. Compute and container platforms: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Registry (ACR).
3. Relational data and messaging: Azure SQL Database and Azure Service Bus.
4. Practical application for each service: configuration, deployment, and assessment against criteria such as availability, performance, security, and cost.
5. Implementing Infrastructure as Code with Bicep to ensure reproducible environments.

Day 2: Architectural Leadership and Clean Architecture

Section III: The Role of the Architect

1. Defining software architecture and various architectural viewpoints.
2. Responsibilities of the software architect, role definition, and ownership of decisions.
3. Specifying architecture and communicating effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
4. A practical roadmap for becoming an effective software architect.

Section IV: Managing Dependencies in Monolithic Systems

1. Principles of Clean Architecture: separating concerns, managing dependency direction, and enhancing maintainability.
2. Choosing the appropriate cloud services for modernizing monolithic applications (including benefits and drawbacks).
3. Hands-on lab: constructing and deploying a Clean Architecture solution in Azure using .NET.

Day 3: Domain-Driven and Distributed Architectures

Section V: DDD, CQRS, and Event Sourcing

1. Fundamentals of Domain-Driven Design: establishing domain boundaries, creating a ubiquitous language, and model-driven design.
2. Concepts of CQRS and Event Sourcing for managing complex, evolving business domains.
3. Architectural patterns commonly used in DDD-based cloud solutions.
4. Hands-on lab: applying Event Sourcing as a requirements-driven design technique (mapping requirements to events, aggregates, and event flows).

Section VI: Microservices

1. Principles of microservices architecture and trade-offs in distributed systems.
2. Selecting cloud services for microservices-based solutions (including benefits and drawbacks).
3. Synchronous and asynchronous communication styles in microservices, featuring reliability patterns like circuit breakers and resilience strategies.
4. Testability in microservices and CI/CD: implementing contract testing, defining integration testing boundaries, setting automated quality gates, and ensuring deployment confidence.
5. Hands-on lab: constructing and deploying microservices in Azure using .NET.