Software Architecture Schedule


Week One
Quality Attributes
  • Simplicity
  • Modularity
  • Maintainability
  • Understandability
Topics

AWS Course Material: Cloud Foundations
Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Module 1
  • Module 2 (skim)
  • Modules 3 - 5
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 1 (skim section 1.2)
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
Case Study Session
  • No Case Study Session this week.
Practical Worksheet Worksheet (HTML)
  • HTTP APIs
  • REST
  • Flask
February 23rd - February 27th


Week Two
Quality Attributes
  • Security
  • Modularity
  • Extensibility
  • Maintainability
  • Understandability
Topics

AWS Course Material: Cloud Foundations
  • Modules 6 - 10
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 1 (section 1.2)
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 19
Case Study Session Brief
  • Codegram
Practical Worksheet Worksheet (HTML)
  • Object Relational Mapping
  • SQLAlchemy
  • Migrations
  • Testing HTTP APIs
Assessment
  • Cloud Infrastructure Assignment released this week
March 2nd - March 6th


Week Three
Quality Attributes
  • Modularity
  • Modifiability
  • Extensibility
  • Interoperability
Topics

AWS Course Material: Cloud Architecting
  • Modules 1 & 2
AWS Course Material: Cloud Developing
  • Module 1, 2 & 8 (just introduction to Docker containers)
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 16
Case Study Session Brief
  • MicroForecast
Practical Worksheet Worksheet (HTML)
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
Assessment
  • API Functionality is due March 27th.
March 9th - March 13th


Week Four
Quality Attributes
  • Modularity
  • Reliability
  • Deployability
Topics

AWS Course Material: Cloud Architecting
  • Modules 3 & 4
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 17
Case Study Session Brief C4 Model
  • yLearn
Practical Worksheet Worksheet (HTML)
  • AWS
  • Terraform
Assessment
  • API Functionality is due next week.
March 16th - March 20th


Week Five
Quality Attributes
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
Topics

AWS Course Material: Cloud Architecting
  • Module 5
  • Modules 6 - 8 (skim)
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 21
Case Study Session Brief
  • DevOps
Practical Worksheet Worksheet (HTML)
  • Deploying RDS on AWS using Terraform
  • Deploying HTTP API on AWS using Terraform
  • Using a container repository
Assessment
  • API Functionality is due this Friday (March 27th @ 3pm).
March 23rd - March 27th


Week Six
Quality Attributes
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
Topics
  • Distributed Systems I (cont.) Handout Slides
    • Fallacies of Distributed Computing
    • Reliability and Fault Tolerance
    • Simple Scaling
  • Microservices Architecture Slides
    • Message Queues

AWS Course Material: Cloud Architecting
  • Modules 9 & 10
  • Module 11 (skim)
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 22
Case Study Session Brief
  • Scalable Coffee Shop
Practical Worksheet Worksheet (HTML)
  • Load Balancers
  • Auto Scaling
Assessment
  • Deploy to Cloud is due immediately after the mid-semester break.
March 30th - April 2nd


Mid-Semester Break

April 6th - April 10th


Week Seven
Quality Attributes
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
Topics

AWS Course Material: Cloud Architecting
  • Module 12
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 20
Case Study Session Brief
  • Eventual Broker
Practical Worksheet — Queues Worksheet (HTML) — Queues
  • Queues
  • Worker Queues
  • Meet Your Project Team
Assessment
  • Deploy to Cloud is due this Monday (April 13th @3pm).
  • Start Scalable Application.
  • Capstone Project assignment released this week.
  • Architecture Presentation assignment released this week.
April 13th - April 17th


Week Eight
Quality Attributes
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
  • Maintainability
Topics

AWS Course Material: Cloud Architecting
  • Module 13 (skim Lambdas)
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 10
Case Study Session Brief
  • Scalable Text-to-Speech
Practical Worksheet — Load Testing Worksheet (HTML) — Load Testing
  • Logging
  • Load Testing
  • Bottlenecks
Assessment
  • Scalable Application is due next week.
  • Start working on the Capstone Project.
April 20th - April 24th


Week Nine
Quality Attributes
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
  • Maintainability
Topics

AWS Course Material: Cloud Architecting
  • Module 14 (skim)
Readings from Software Architecture in Practice 4th edition
  • Chapter 12
Case Study Session Brief
  • Ticket Sales to the World — Scaling Transactions
Practical
  • Scalable Application Assignment Help
Assessment
  • Scalable Application is due this Friday (May 1st @ 3pm).
  • Continue working on the Capstone Project.
April 27th - May 1st


Week Ten
Quality Attributes
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
Topics
  • Labour Day Public Holiday — No Lecture

Case Study Session
  • Spam Handling
Practical
  • Project Team Meetings
Assessment
  • Continue working on the Capstone Project.
May 5th - May 8th


Week Eleven
Quality Attributes
  • Reliability
  • Maintainability
Topics
  • Distributed Systems III (cont.) Handout Slides
    • Consensus
    • Consistency
    • Fault Tolerance
    • Distributed Transactions
  • Technical Documentation (Guest Lecture by Anna Truffet from Google) Slides

Case Study Session
  •  
Practical
  • Project Team Meetings
Assessment
  • Continue working on the Capstone Project.
  • Start working on the Architecture Presentation.
May 11th - May 15th


Week Twelve
Quality Attributes
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Evolvability
  • Deployability
  • Maintainability
  • Interoperability
Topics
  • Deployment Strategies Slides
    • Release Branching
    • Recreate Deployment
    • Rolling Deployment
    • Blue/green Deployment
    • Canary Deployment
    • A/B Deployment
    • Shadow Deployment
  • Decomposing Monoliths Slides
  • Soft Skills for Architects Slides
    • Leveraging Conway's Law
    • Breadth over Depth
  • Software Engineering Research

Case Study Session
  • Course Feedback
Practical
  • Project Team Meetings
Assessment
  • Continue working on the Capstone Project.
  • Architecture Presentation is due next week.
May 18th - May 22nd


Week Thirteen
Quality Attributes
  • Maintainability
Topics
  • Presentations

Case Study Session
  • Presentations
Practical
  • Presentations
Assessment
  • Architecture Presentation slides are due this Monday (May 25th @ 3pm).
  • Architecture Presentations are conducted this week.
  • Continue working on the Capstone Project — due June 8th @ 3pm.
May 25th - May 29th


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