Six architecture disciplines, Software, System, Platform, Solution, Security and Data, plus leadership and governance, drawn into one set. Five enterprise capstones and a 50-deliverable portfolio, for engineers ready to move from building systems to designing them.
Chapter 1.01 defines architecture as the set of decisions about a system's structure that are expensive to change and decide whether its quality goals can be met. Diagrams, documents and code come after. The bootcamp gives you four tests for spotting those decisions:
A logistics company wants live shipment locations on its tracking page. 40,000 active shipments at peak. The device API belongs to another team, with its own SLAs. Three approaches are on the table. Weight what matters, and watch the decision change.
| Quality attribute | Weight | Pollingevery 15 s ≈ 2,667 calls/s | Event stream | Hybrid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted total | ||||
Scores are illustrative. In the real exercise you produce your own trade-off analysis and defend it, then compare it with self-assessment notes on what a strong answer covers.
Most bootcamps train you for one title. This one gives each architecture discipline its own lesson, plus a Portfolio Lab with five real deliverables for that role. Study the whole building, or go deep on the floor you're targeting.
This is a Fundamental bootcamp. It assumes you've worked on real projects and want to move into an architect role. Run a quick structural survey: tick what you already have.
Typical backgrounds
Foundation survey
An honest expectation. The bootcamp gives you the frameworks, the practice and the portfolio. It doesn't replace hands-on experience. Without prior senior engineering, DevOps, data or security exposure, aim for junior architect or architect-adjacent roles first.
Every lesson is a floor and every chapter a room. Pick a floor, then walk into any room to see what's inside. Every chapter, Portfolio Lab, capstone and module is listed, straight from the course itself.
This is the real chapter 1.01, Architectural Thinking & Decision Frameworks. Each layer is drawn to scale by word count. Every taught chapter in Lessons 1–7 is built the same way.
Lesson 8 hands you five enterprise programmes, each with a brief, competing stakeholders and a regulator. You work through five phases, from context analysis to the full deliverable set and a self-review. Then you compare your work with a reference solution, presented as one strong answer among several.
The kind of documents architects are actually asked to produce, from a vision document and ADR set to a threat model and a business case. Lesson 9 then shows you how to publish them on a portfolio site and GitHub, and how to present a capstone in an interview.
Typical gross annual base pay for software, solution and IT architects, drawn as towers. Each tower spans the typical range for that level. Architect titles usually come after several years in engineering, so treat the first tower as your next step, not your first job.
Self-paced doesn't mean unsupported. Mentor Bob is an AI study assistant built into every section of the bootcamp. It has already read the section you're on, so you can ask it to unpack a trade-off or walk through a decision the moment you get stuck.
Included with the bootcamp. Not an upsell.
If you have a few years on real projects as a developer, tech lead, DevOps or data engineer, QA lead, BA or project manager, yes: it's built for that transition. If you're new to IT, start with a Beginner bootcamp like DevOps Beginner or AI-Powered Full-Stack Developer and come back.
No. Every lesson is unlocked the day you buy, so you can work through the whole set or go straight to the discipline you're targeting. Each lesson's Portfolio Lab stands on its own.
It's self-paced, with no deadline and no cohort. It's also big: each taught chapter has five content sections of roughly 2,000 words each, plus practice exercises and a 30-question assessment. Most people pick a discipline and go chapter by chapter.
No, it isn't exam prep. Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman are covered in Lesson 4 as working tools, alongside the decision frameworks, documentation standards (ADRs, C4, arc42) and governance practices architects use day to day.
Five fictional but realistic enterprise programmes: a €2B retailer's e-commerce re-platform, a newly licensed UK digital bank, a multi-tenant healthcare SaaS, an enterprise AI platform, and a government legacy-modernisation programme. Each runs through five phases, and its reference solution is presented as one strong answer, not the only one.
A portfolio of 50 professional deliverables: 35 from the Portfolio Labs and 15 from Lesson 9. Lesson 9 also covers publishing them on a portfolio site and GitHub and preparing a capstone presentation for interviews.
Mentor Bob, the AI study assistant, is built into every section. It has already read the section you're on, so you can ask it to explain a trade-off differently or walk through an example.
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