Domains

Architecture & System Design

How systems are structured, scaled and kept running, and the trade-offs behind each choice.

Topics

• Architecture Styles

  Monoliths, microservices, layers and the decisions that are expensive to change.

  27 concepts

• Domain-Driven Design

  Modeling software on the business domain and its language.

  14 concepts

• System Design Fundamentals

  Scaling, load balancing, replication, sharding and the classic design problems.

  47 concepts

• Distributed Systems

  Many machines cooperating over an unreliable network.

  38 concepts

• Reliability & Resilience

  Keeping systems working when parts of them fail.

  32 concepts

• Performance & Scalability

  Finding bottlenecks and making systems fast enough at the right cost.

  21 concepts

• Events & Integration

  Connecting systems through events, data pipelines and shared contracts.

  17 concepts

• Cloud Design Patterns

  Named patterns for building on distributed cloud infrastructure.

  18 concepts