What you'll learn
- Design service boundaries sensibly
- Use queues and asynchronous processing
- Apply caching without corrupting data
- Reason about consistency and transactions
- Design for failure and recovery
- Document and defend an architecture
What the course covers
6 modules · 24 topics, taught in live sessions with your tutor
- Monolith vs services
- Service boundaries
- Layered architecture
- Trade-offs
Requirements
- Experience building back-end services
- Comfortable with databases and APIs
- Familiarity with Git and deployment
Description
Enterprise systems fail in ways small apps never do: partial failures, race conditions, data that must stay consistent across services. This course covers the patterns used to handle them.
Design exercises run alongside implementation, since architecture decisions matter more than syntax here.
Who this course is for
- Developers moving into senior roles
- Engineers joining a larger codebase
- Anyone preparing for system design interviews
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