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Software Architecture Bootcamp

From senior developer to software architect — think, design, and communicate like one.

Duration: 12 weeks
Duration
Sessions: 24
Sessions
Labs: 10
Labs
Projects: 1
Projects

What You'll Be Able To Do

After completing this course, you will confidently:

Think like an architect: own requirements, reason about trade-offs, and justify every decision
Write measurable non-functional requirements and use them to drive architecture choices
Run structured trade-off analysis and capture decisions in Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
Apply Domain-Driven Design — strategic context mapping and tactical patterns — to set service boundaries
Design security architecture: threat modeling, zero-trust, IAM, and secrets management
Plan and execute legacy modernization with evolutionary architecture and fitness functions
Govern architecture across teams: standards, review processes, and clear documentation (C4, ADRs)
Design production-grade AWS architecture using the Well-Architected Framework's six pillars
Present end-to-end architectures with confidence and defend them under questioning

What You'll Build

Real portfolio projects that showcase your skills to employers.

End-to-End Architecture Design (Capstone)

Take a real-world business scenario — such as a ride-sharing platform or a digital banking system — and design it completely, the way an architect presents to a client or leadership team. You gather functional and non-functional requirements, write measurable quality-attribute scenarios, produce component and data-flow diagrams, select databases and a sharding strategy with justification, evaluate alternatives with decision matrices, write ADRs for the key decisions, and address scalability, security, observability, cost, and migration path. You then present and defend the design in a mentor challenge round.

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Interview value:

Architecture and system-design interviews are won by candidates who can structure a problem, justify trade-offs, and communicate clearly under pressure. A documented end-to-end design plus the practice of defending it in mentor challenge rounds is exactly the preparation senior and architect-level interviews demand.

Course Curriculum

12 weeks of structured, hands-on learning.

1The Architect's Mindset & Requirements Ownership

What separates an architect from a senior developer
Functional requirements: use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria
Non-functional requirements (the '-ilities') that actually drive architecture
Eliciting NFRs from stakeholders and writing measurable quality-attribute scenarios

Lab: Extract & Document NFRs for an Online Banking SystemLive Demo

2Architecture Trade-off Analysis & ADRs

Trade-off thinking as the architect's core skill — every choice has a cost
Decision frameworks: weighted matrices, cost-benefit, ATAM-lite
Classic tension pairs: consistency vs availability, cost vs resilience, simplicity vs flexibility
Architecture Decision Records — documenting the 'why' behind every choice

Lab: Evaluate 3 Architectures & Write the ADRLive Demo

3Domain-Driven Design — Strategic

Why the domain — not the tech — should drive your architecture
Strategic DDD: subdomains, bounded contexts, and context mapping
Context-map relationships: partnership, customer-supplier, anti-corruption layer
Turning a messy business domain into clean service boundaries

Lab: Build a Context Map for a Real Business DomainLive Demo

4Domain-Driven Design — Tactical & Modeling Patterns

Aggregates, entities, value objects, and the ubiquitous language
Hexagonal / Ports & Adapters — keeping business logic infrastructure-agnostic
Where DDD pays off and where it is over-engineering
Modeling consistency boundaries and invariants

Lab: Model an Aggregate & Hexagonal Boundary in JavaDocker Lab

5Architecting Distributed Systems — The Decisions, Not the Patterns

You know microservices, events, and APIs from system design — now own the decisions
Service boundaries & data ownership: the calls that make or break a platform
Choosing communication styles and API contracts (REST/gRPC/GraphQL, versioning, idempotency)
When NOT to go distributed — the modular monolith as a deliberate choice

Lab: Decompose a Java Monolith & Justify Every Boundary with an ADRDocker Lab

6Security Architecture

Threat modeling with STRIDE — thinking like an attacker
Authentication & authorization architecture: OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, token propagation
Zero-trust principles, least privilege, and secrets management
Data protection: encryption in transit and at rest, key management, PII handling

Lab: Produce a Threat Model & Security Design for a Fintech APILive Demo

7Evolutionary Architecture & Legacy Modernization

Architecture is never 'done' — designing for change
Strangler Fig in practice: incrementally replacing a monolith
Fitness functions: making architecture characteristics testable and enforceable
Managing technical debt and architectural drift over time

Lab: Write a Strangler-Fig Modernization Plan for a Legacy SystemLive Demo

8Architecture Governance, Documentation & Communication

Documenting architecture that people actually read: the C4 model and ADRs
Running architecture reviews and design-review boards without becoming a bottleneck
Setting standards, guardrails, and a paved road for engineering teams
Communicating architecture to different audiences: CTO vs dev team vs business

Lab: Create a C4 Model + ADR Set for a PlatformLive Demo

9Cloud Architecture & the AWS Well-Architected Framework

What fundamentally changes when you architect for the cloud
The six Well-Architected pillars and the trade-offs between them
Operational excellence, security, and 'design for failure'
Using the framework as the lens for every cloud decision

Lab: Evaluate an Architecture Against the Well-Architected PillarsAWS Free Tier

10AWS Architecture — Compute, Networking, Data & Storage

Compute spectrum: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda — choosing well per workload
VPC design, load balancing, multi-AZ and multi-region availability
Mapping AWS data services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, ElastiCache) to access patterns
Reference architectures for 3-tier, event-driven, and serverless systems

Lab: Design the AWS Storage & Networking Architecture for a PlatformAWS Free Tier

11AWS Patterns: Reliability, Performance, Cost & Serverless

Event-driven and serverless on AWS: EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Step Functions
Reliability: fault isolation, auto-scaling, and disaster-recovery tiers
Performance efficiency: caching, read replicas, and async processing
Cost optimization and the cloud cost traps every architect must know

Lab: Conduct a Well-Architected Review on a Sample AWS DesignAWS Free Tier

12Capstone — End-to-End Design, Presentation & Architect Readiness

Design a complete system from requirements to architecture presentation
Decision matrices, ADRs, and trade-off justification for key choices
Mentor challenge round: defending your design under questioning
Your growth roadmap: certifications, deep dives, and the path forward

Live Demo

3 hours

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Prerequisite: System Design Masterclass

This bootcamp assumes you already know system-design fundamentals — CAP theorem, capacity estimation, caching, database selection, sharding, and the core building blocks. If you don't yet, take the System Design Masterclass first; it is the direct prerequisite for this program.

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Who Is This For?

Working Professionals

Already in tech and looking to upskill? Deepen your expertise with production-grade labs and system design patterns used at top companies.

Career Switchers

Moving from another domain into tech? The structured curriculum and real-world projects bridge the gap between theory and what employers actually look for.

Ideal If You Are:

Senior and mid-level developers who feel stuck and want to grow into architects
Solution architects who want stronger design, trade-off, and communication skills
Tech leads responsible for design decisions and architecture reviews
Engineers preparing for architecture and system-design interviews

Prerequisites

REQUIRED: Solid system-design fundamentals — CAP theorem, capacity estimation, caching, database selection, sharding, and core building blocks. New to these? Take our System Design Masterclass first; it is the direct prerequisite for this bootcamp.
3+ years of professional software development experience
Working knowledge of Java and hands-on coding experience
Basic cloud exposure (any provider; AWS is taught from the ground up here)
This is NOT a system design course and NOT for beginners — it is the architect layer above system design

Career Support Included

We don't just teach you — we help you land the job.

Mock Interviews

Practice with real-world interview scenarios. Get feedback on technical depth, communication, and problem-solving approach.

Resume Review

One-on-one review sessions to craft a resume that highlights your projects, skills, and achievements the right way.

Portfolio Coaching

Guidance on presenting your course projects as professional portfolio pieces that stand out to hiring managers.

LinkedIn Optimization

Tips and templates to optimize your LinkedIn profile so recruiters find you and reach out.

Learn from Industry Practitioners

Our instructors are working professionals who build production systems daily. They bring real-world experience, battle-tested patterns, and the kind of practical insight that textbooks can't teach.

Course Details

Format	Live Online
Duration	12 weeks
Schedule	24 sessions
Batch Size	Max 15 students
Certificate	Yes, on completion
Practice	Hands-on labs and a portfolio project
Price	Enquire for pricing

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to take the System Design Masterclass first?

We strongly recommend it. This bootcamp treats system-design fundamentals — CAP theorem, building blocks, database selection, sharding, estimation — as a prerequisite and builds on top of them to develop architect-level judgement, trade-off analysis, and communication. If you already have solid system-design knowledge from experience, you can join directly; if not, start with the System Design Masterclass.

How is this different from the System Design Masterclass?

They sit at different layers and are designed to be taken in sequence. The System Design Masterclass teaches you to design scalable systems and pass system-design interviews — load balancing, caching, databases, sharding, microservices patterns. This Architecture Bootcamp assumes you already have that foundation and goes to the architect layer: owning non-functional requirements, structured trade-off analysis and ADRs, Domain-Driven Design, security architecture and threat modeling, evolutionary architecture and legacy modernization, architecture governance, and production-grade AWS cloud design. Where the two touch the same ground (e.g. microservices), the Masterclass teaches the patterns and this bootcamp teaches the architect's decisions, boundaries, and governance around them.

Is it hands-on or theory-only?

It is design-intensive and practical. Every week has design exercises, and there are dedicated whiteboard workshops plus a full capstone. You produce real artifacts — NFR scenarios, decision matrices, ADRs, API specs, and architecture diagrams — using real Java and AWS examples.

Which technologies are used in the examples?

Real-world Java and Spring Boot for services, Kafka for event-driven examples, Resilience4j for resilience patterns, OpenAPI for API contracts, and AWS for cloud architecture. The principles are technology-agnostic, but concrete examples keep the learning grounded.

What unique skills do I get here that system design doesn't cover?

Domain-Driven Design (strategic context mapping and tactical modeling), security architecture and threat modeling, evolutionary architecture and legacy modernization with the strangler-fig pattern, architecture governance and documentation (C4 model, ADRs, review processes), and a full production-grade AWS cloud track using the Well-Architected Framework — none of which a system-design interview course covers. You also build an architecture artifact portfolio: NFR scenarios, ADRs, a threat model, a modernization plan, a C4 model, and an end-to-end capstone design.

What roles does this prepare me for?

Software Architect, Solution Architect, Technical Lead, and senior engineering roles where you own design decisions. It also prepares you to lead architecture reviews and mentor other engineers.

How much does it cost?

The bootcamp is priced at ₹15,000 per month over 3 months. For current offers, batch dates, and enrollment, use the Call or WhatsApp button on this page and our team will help you.