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Week 6 - Cloud / Architecture

Discussion​

Review​

Review & Discussion
  1. Project Selection
  2. Github Actions
  3. Terraform

This Week​

This week's main focus is on architecture. We'll continue our discussion of cloud technologies in the context of system design and talk through the early stages of the project you selected.

Let's talk about system quality attributes. There's more to a system than just performance. Use the System Qualities Framework here to asses how your system should perform.

Reading & Async Content​

Martin Fowler on Architecture​

Robert C. Martin on Architecture​

Simon Brown on Software Design​

Practice​

Draft Architecture​

The first thing we want you to do this week is develop a first-pass architecture for your system. WE'll do some of this synchronously, but you should dive into more detail between our sessions.

Remember, don't try to capture everything about the system in a single view. Yes, it's helpful to have a big-picture logical architecture, but you may also want to capture detailed subsystem views, deployment views, or behavioral flows.

Start by capturing the needs of the system. Who is it for? What value does it provide? What must the system do?

DevOps Preparation​

The next step we want you to do is think about and prepare for operation of your system. The first step is to ensure you have at least a starter CI/CD pipeline that you can build on. At this point if it does nothing more than build your code or run a single unit test, that's fine.

Technology Deep Dive​

Begin diving into the technologies you think you might use in the project. It's best to start doing this hands on with some simple, but realistic prototypes.