Software Design and Architecture

Architecture is decision-making under uncertainty: what to modularize, how services communicate, and which quality attributes dominate. This pillar links clean architecture, DDD, API design, and service patterns already in the catalog.

Audience: Senior engineers and architects shaping service boundaries.

Curriculum

1. Cost-Aware Architecture
2. Data Contracts and Ownership
3. Quality-Attribute Scenarios
4. Clean Architecture — Depend Inward
5. Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Essentials
6. SOLID Principles — Maintainable Object Design
7. OOP Fundamentals — Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism
8. Design Patterns in Java — Practical Catalog
9. API Design — Clear Contracts Clients Can Trust
10. REST vs GraphQL — Resources vs Client-Specified Queries
11. The Twelve-Factor App — Cloud-Native Baselines
12. Microservices Architecture — Independently Deployable Services
13. Event-Driven Architecture — React to Facts, Don’t Chain Calls
14. Client–Server Architecture

By Shubham Jain. Last reviewed 2026-07-15.

Shubham Jain · Learning Lab