Modern software systems are no longer single applications. They are ecosystems of services, events, integrations, and distributed workflows. Building such systems requires much more than writing code. It requires architectural thinking.
This course is designed to teach you how real distributed systems are designed, using Service Oriented Architecture and Event Driven Architecture as the foundation. Instead of focusing on theory alone, we will explore the architectural principles, patterns, and design decisions used in modern scalable systems.
You will learn how to think like an architect and understand why certain design choices succeed while others lead to fragile distributed systems. Throughout the course we will move step by step from the fundamentals of service design to advanced patterns used in production architectures.
In this course you will learn how to:
- Design clear service boundaries and ownership models that prevent distributed monoliths
- Build systems using Service Oriented Architecture principles that scale over time
- Understand when to use synchronous communication and when event driven systems are the right choice
- Design domain events and integration events correctly
- Apply event driven architecture patterns used in real production systems
But this course goes far beyond basic architecture concepts. You will also explore the hard problems of distributed systems that many courses ignore.
You will learn how to:
- Handle message delivery guarantees, retries, and failure scenarios
- Design idempotent consumers and resilient messaging flows
- Use event choreography and orchestration to model business processes
- Manage event schema evolution and versioning without breaking consumers
- Implement eventual consistency and Saga patterns for distributed transactions
We will also cover essential reliability patterns used in production systems.
