Software Design and Architecture.

Catalog description

This course explores fundamental principles and practices of software design and architecture. Students learn architectural patterns (microservices, event-driven, serverless, layered), design patterns (GoF patterns, SOLID principles), and architectural styles (REST, MVC, hexagonal). Core topics include middleware architectures, component-based design, and frameworks. The course emphasizes designing for quality attributes: performance optimization, security by design, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and reusability. Students apply techniques for architectural modeling (UML, C4 model), technical decision-making, and trade-off analysis. Through hands-on projects, students evaluate architectures using metrics and architectural fitness functions. Topics include cloud-native architectures, API design, domain-driven design, and architectural documentation. Students develop skills in building, documenting, and assessing software architectures for modern distributed systems. (Spring) Prerequisite: EG 1316 and EG 2312 .