Evaluating Software Architecture

Overview

IT professionals, who are NOT software architects, may have a need to analyse software architectures created by others.  For example, those who oversee IT outsourced projects may need to do at least some basic evaluation of the architectures submitted by vendors, or IT managers may need to evaluate the architectures submitted by their team members.

This compact programme will help participants gain foundational skills to allow basic evaluation of software architecture.  The course covers foundational introduction of the following areas - architectural qualities, principles, styles, components with focus on current architectural styles such as cloud native, microservices-driven and container architecture, polyglot persistence and leveraging on devops automation practices.

By combining lectures with scenario-based workshop, the programme prepares the mindset of participants to understand and carry out basic evaluation of proposed software architectures.

Key Takeaways

• Understand the key quality standards and tactics to evaluate an architecture
• Understand the purpose of key architecture components and considerations of common integration options
• Appreciate the main development and design practices involved in building of the cloud native applications
• Discover the key benefits and trade-offs of monoliths, serverless and microservices application architecture
• Understand appropriate use of polyglot persistence modelling
• Understand architecturally significant influences that cater to system scaling
• Understand DevOps and deployment pipelines
• Appreciate architecture debt
• Apply the above in basic evaluation of software architectures

Who Should Attend

• Please refer to the job role section.
• IT Professionals (who are NOT software architects) who need to evaluate software architectures.  For example, those who oversee IT outsourced projects may need to do at least some basic evaluation of the architectures submitted by vendors, or IT managers may need to evaluate the architectures submitted by their team members.
  
  
  

Prerequisites

Note that prior knowledge of software development is a compulsory requirement to attend this programme.

To assess suitability of the programme, a pre-programme survey will be conducted. 

What To Bring

You must bring your internet-enabled computing devices (laptops, tablet etc) with power chargers to access and download programme materials. No printed copies of programme materials are issued. Please refer to the full tech specifications here.