Software Architecture and Platforms

How to study

The chapters are in study order: they follow the official course organisation of the Intro deck — Part I (Software Architecture Fundamentals), Part II (Architecture and Methods), Part III (Microservices and Patterns), Part IV (Research-oriented Themes) — and close with the four lab-note decks. Chapters 16–18 belong to Part III’s microservices material: chapter 16 fulfils the promise made in chapter 10 that the lab notes on designing event-driven microservices would go much deeper; chapters 17 and 18 complete the production and testing picture. Read them after chapter 15 as the closing sequence.
The plates are technical diagrams rebuilt from the slides: read them as figures, not decoration. The widgets (classifiers, state explorers, steppers, annotated code) are working implementations of the mechanisms of the course — use them actively, in particular the event-broker stepper of chapter 16, the configuration and deployment steppers of chapter 17, and the contract-collaboration stepper of chapter 18.
Every chapter ends with «Check your understanding»: exam-style questions with collapsible answers in the exact formulation of the course. The final sequence 16→17→18 is the practical capstone: events first, then production-readiness and deployment, then testing — chapter 18 is terminal.
Every section carries a data-src attribute naming the exact official slide deck it derives from; every footer lists the sources. The chapters are reconstructions of the official course material (decks, lab notes and cited papers), not redistributions of it.

Supplementary reference library

The course corpus on Virtuale contains 34 files. Of these, 28 are taught sources rebuilt into the 18 chapters above (the module decks, the six lab-note decks, and the cited research papers / textbook chapters), and the Intro deck (Slides Folder - Intro) is used for this index’s course overview only. The remaining 5 files — cloud, ISO-standard and textbook material — are listed here honestly as a supplementary reference library: they are present in the official course materials, but they are not taught chapter sources and are deliberately not rebuilt as chapters:

Slides Folder - multi-tenant-cloud-architectures — cloud-architecture slides (multi-tenancy);
Materials Folder - BS ISO-IEC 22123-1-2023 — ISO/IEC 22123-1:2023, cloud computing vocabulary;
Materials Folder - BS ISO-IEC 22123-2-2023 — ISO/IEC 22123-2:2023, cloud computing concepts;
Materials Folder - BS ISO-IEC 19086-1-2016 — ISO/IEC 19086-1:2016, cloud service level agreement framework;
Materials Folder - Dan C. Marinescu - Cloud Computing_ Theory and Practice-Morgan Kaufmann (2022) — the cloud computing textbook.

The course’s reference textbooks listed in the Intro deck (Bass et al., Richardson & Ford, Taylor et al., Clements et al., Martin, Newman, Richardson, Fowler) remain the reading list of the course; two of them are also used as section sources inside the chapters (Materials Folder - Software-Fundamentals of Software Architecture in chapter 3, and the “Microservices Patterns” book behind the four lab notes).

How to study

Part I — Software Architecture Fundamentals

Part II — Architecture and Methods

Part III — Microservices and Reactive Architectures

Part IV — Autonomous Systems and Multi-Agent Architectures

Lab Notes — Microservices in Practice (closing sequence)

Supplementary reference library