About This Course
Designed for software architects, operations architects, and aspiring architects, this advanced course covers practical approaches for building high-scale applications that stay highly available under real-world conditions. It examines the patterns and decisions that separate resilient systems from fragile ones — drawing on techniques proven in SaaS applications, e-commerce platforms, and enterprise systems.
What You’ll Learn
- Availability vs. reliability — understanding the difference and designing for both
- Measuring availability and defining meaningful SLAs
- Managing service APIs, ownership, and dependencies across distributed systems
- Implementing service tiers to control blast radius and isolate failures
- Architecting for scale using cloud-native patterns
- Capacity management, incident response, and system monitoring
Course Structure
Five modules covering availability fundamentals, SLA measurement, service API design, service tier implementation, and large-scale architecture — approximately 8 hours total.
Level: Advanced • Platform: Coursera • Certificate: Shareable
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