Format: Live Virtual Training
Duration: 2-Day Class
Instructor: Mark Richards
The job "Software Architect" was rated as the number one job by a recent CNN survey. Yet no clear path exists for moving from developer to architect. Why? Because software architecture is massive multidisciplinary subject with no clear definition or job description, making it difficult to chart a course for undertaking all of the learning required to become an effective software architect.
This intensive hands-on 2-day live virtual class taught by Mark Richards is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and roadmap necessary to become an effective software architect. Being a software architect is much more than just drawing boxes and lines. It's about thinking like an architect, being a leader, and understanding the architectural elements, patterns, and styles necessary to create effective software architectures. Through interactive course materials and architecture exercises, this course will teach you the technical aspects of software architecture as well as how to make effective architecture decisions.
Knowing what architecture pattern best fit your situation is critical to the success of your architecture. In this course you will gain an in-depth understanding of many different architecture styles and patterns, including event-driven, microkernel, space-based, microservices, and service-based architectures. You will learn how each pattern works, the major characteristics of each pattern, and how to use each architecture style to create an effective software architecture that matches your business needs and requirements.
Whether you are on the path of developer to architect or already an architect, this course will provide you with the necessary practical hands-on real-world technical and soft-skills knowledge to quickly become an effective software architect.
For more information about the pricing and availability of this course for private (corporate) training, please contact me at info@developertoarchitect.com. For public training offerings for this course, please see my public schedule at my upcoming events page.
Course Agenda
Unit 1: Introduction
- Agenda and course logistics
- Expectations of a software architect
Unit 2: Architectural Thinking
- What is Software Architecture?
- Architecture vs. design
- Identifying architecture characteristics
- Architecture katas (hands-on exercises)
Unit 3: Architecture Characteristics
- Defining types of characteristics
- Translating business needs to architecture characteristics
- Cart before the horse anti-pattern
- Balancing requirements and characteristics
- Hands-on exercises: Identifying characteristics
Unit 4: Component-Based Thinking
- Identifying components and services
- Component granularity
- Component coupling
- Component cohesion
- Hands-on exercises: Identifying components
Unit 5: Architecture Styles
- Architecture style taxonomy
- Fallacies of distributed computing
- Microservices architecture
- Service-based architecture
- Event-driven architecture
- Microkernel architecture
- Space-based architecture
- Hands-on exercises: Identifying architecture style(s)
Unit 6: Making Architecture Decisions
- Architecture decision anti-patterns
- Architecture decision records
- Example decision records
Unit 7: Summary and Wrap-up
- Developing your career path
- Next steps