Courses by Lee Atchison
Lee’s courses cover software architecture, cloud computing, and technology leadership, and are delivered through Atchison Academy and its affiliated learning platforms. Every course page names the platform it is on and what getting in actually takes.
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Risk Management for Scalable Systems
Risk as a portfolio you manage on purpose. Build a matrix for your own systems, then use it to win the arguments that decide the roadmap.
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Cloud Architecture for Scalable Systems
Vendor-neutral cloud architecture from the architect's seat — deployment models, managed services, infrastructure as code, cloud-native design, cost as a first-class constraint, and migration planning.
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Scalable Availability in Software Architecture
Practical techniques for designing modern, high-scale applications that maintain strong availability while managing complexity, risk, and service dependencies.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningSoftware Architecture: From Developer to Architect
What actually changes when a developer becomes a software architect, and how to make that transition on purpose.
Learn more → O'Reilly MediaCloud Migration Fundamentals: Best Practices for Moving to the Cloud
The strategies and practices that move a migration from a slide deck to a running system, without the outage nobody planned for.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningAvoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy
The decisions that quietly sink a cloud strategy after it's already running — misjudged security, blurry roles, cost that gets away from you — and how to catch them before they become expensive.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningCloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts
Lee's longest and newest LinkedIn Learning course: architecting a cloud infrastructure end to end, from core cloud types through serverless, security, AI, the edge, and sustainability.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningCloud Careers: From Developer to Architect
What the cloud architect role actually is, how it differs from other architecture roles — the cloud developer role especially — and how to build a career path into it.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningCloud for Business: Developing a Cloud Center of Excellence
Whether a Cloud Center of Excellence benefits your organization, the models it can take, and how to staff and measure one that actually works.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningFraming Cloud Discussions for the C-Suite
Translating cloud decisions into language a C-suite audience will actually engage with, whatever the specific decision is.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningPresenting Cloud Migration Benefits to the C-Suite
A structured framework for pitching one specific cloud migration to executives and getting an actual yes.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningUnderstanding the Impact of a Merger for IT Teams
Navigating a merger from the IT seat: overlapping systems, competing architectures, and where your job actually stands.
Learn more → LinkedIn LearningUnderstanding the Value of Cloud-Native Architecture
What cloud-native actually means, why it delivers what it does, and what building it — not just buying into it — actually looks like.
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Atchison Academy
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