Architecture Learning Paths
These guide categories map to real cloud, data, reliability, and governance work. They bring together explainers, checklists, tradeoff pages, and practical walkthroughs so technical teams can move from search to action.
Guide Categories
- Cloud Architecture
Foundations, topology decisions, and reference patterns for production-ready cloud systems.
50 pages - AWS Architecture
AWS-specific design choices for networking, compute, storage, resilience, and cost.
50 pages - Azure Architecture
Azure landing zones, identity strategy, networking, and enterprise delivery patterns.
50 pages - GCP Architecture
GCP organization design, network policy, data platforms, and production reliability patterns.
50 pages - Kubernetes and Cloud Native
Cluster design, workload placement, platform standards, and runtime reliability for Kubernetes teams.
50 pages - Microservices and Distributed Systems
Service boundaries, communication choices, resilience patterns, and operational concerns for distributed software.
50 pages - Database Design
Schema modeling, normalization tradeoffs, indexing, migrations, and operational readiness for data systems.
50 pages - System Design Reviews
Repeatable review frameworks for architecture proposals, design docs, and implementation readiness.
50 pages - DevOps and CI/CD
Delivery pipelines, environment promotion, release automation, and platform operational readiness.
50 pages - Observability and SRE
Reliability budgets, alerting, incident response, and observability architecture for service owners.
50 pages - Security Architecture
Threat modeling, trust boundaries, access controls, and secure design decisions for software teams.
50 pages - Compliance and Governance
Policies, control mapping, ownership models, and governance mechanisms for modern cloud estates.
50 pages - Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Pulumi, and Kubernetes delivery patterns for reviewable, governable infrastructure changes.
50 pages - Scalability and Performance
Capacity models, bottleneck analysis, and performance planning across applications and platforms.
50 pages - Reliability and Resilience
Availability objectives, failover choices, recovery planning, and resilience verification patterns.
50 pages - SaaS and Multi-Tenant Systems
Tenant isolation, billing boundaries, operational control planes, and SaaS platform design patterns.
50 pages - Data and Analytics Platforms
Warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, and governance decisions for data platform teams.
50 pages - API and Integration Architecture
Contract design, integration patterns, rate control, and operational visibility for APIs and platforms.
50 pages - Hybrid, Multi-Cloud, and Migration
Estate mapping, migration sequencing, landing zones, and target-state design across environments.
50 pages