Architecture & SDLC Learning Roadmap
Complete Architecture & SDLC learning path covering 17 topics across 5 stages — from requirements and lifecycle foundations through process models, single-deployable styles, distributed patterns, and decision craft. Estimated times include focused study with hands-on ADRs and C4 sketches.
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What architecture and SDLC are, how they relate, mastery outcomes, and the requirements spine that drives every later choice.
Section landing: architecture vs SDLC, when decisions happen, topic map, requirements-first mindset.
Dual-audience curriculum, stages, human vs AI agent checkpoints, proof of mastery.
Phases, gates, artifacts, feedback loops — why each phase exists.
FR vs NFR, stories vs use cases, MoSCoW, INVEST, AC, PRD/FRD, requirement → architecture tables.
Choose how the team flows work under different risk, feedback, and compliance conditions.
Sequential stages, regulated fit, risks, artifacts, hybrids with iterative delivery.
Values, roles, events, Definition of Done, when Agile fits or fails.
WIP limits, flow metrics, vs Scrum, interrupt-driven and platform work.
CALMS, CI/CD culture, shift-left, continuous everything, platform engineering.
Structure one deployable well before distributing — modularity, layers, and ports & adapters.
When distribution earns its cost — services, events, CQRS, and serverless — driven by requirements.
Bounded contexts, data ownership, when NOT to use, team topology link.
Events vs commands, brokers, eventual consistency, EDA requirements.
Divergent read/write models, complexity cost, justification signals.
Cold starts, cost model, fit/limits, hexagonal escape hatch.
Turn knowledge into decisions: tables, ADRs, C4, fitness functions, and evolutionary habits.
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