Software Engineering Overview

In this module you will learn the basics of modern software engineering. You will learn how our industry progresses over time, practices test driven development, and implement widely used data structures.

Learning objectives

• Describe the ideal lifecycle for modern software development
• Describe XP practices, principles, and values
• Summarize the complexities inherent to software development
• Use test driven development to write a simple data structure

Fundamentals of Software Architecture

In this module you will learn the fundamentals of software architecture. You will learn how to evolve software over time and how to work within a large codebase.

Learning objectives

• Describe evolutionary software architecture
• Describe common patterns in distributed systems
• Implement an evolutionary architecture

Fundamentals of Production Software

In this module you will learn the fundamentals of monitoring software in production. You will learn how to create reliable background jobs, how to calculate and communicate service availability, and how to implement production metrics and monitoring.

Learning objectives

• Implement production metrics and monitoring
• Create service level objectives
• Describe the pitfalls of monitoring background jobs

Fundamentals of Software Architecture for Big Data

In this module you will learn the fundamentals of production quality databases and messaging systems. You will learn to understand the tradeoffs between consistency and availability, how to implement database transactions to improve consistency, and how to implement messaging systems to improve availability.

Learning objectives

• Describe the tradeoffs between service consistency and availability
• Implement database transactions
• Implement messaging systems

Additional materials