Software Architecture: Patterns for Developers

1h 27mIntermediate2025-04-09

Authors

Peter Morlion

Software Developer with 10+ years of experience

Course details

As a developer, you're ultimately building software to solve problems for your users. But a successful application also needs to be easy for you and other developers to work with. Enter software architecture patterns. These trusted solutions allow you to translate complex architectural problems to recognizable patterns. In this course, instructor Peter Morlion covers a variety of the most well-known software architecture patterns, showing you how to apply the correct architecture to new systems and recognize patterns in existing systems. Peter goes over system patterns such as microservices. He also covers application patterns like event sourcing, as well as UI patterns like model-view-controller (MVC). Along the way, he shares pros and cons that help you determine which patterns to use.

Learning objectives
Recognize and apply architectural patterns to your software designs.
Design an architecture for a new software application.

Skills covered

Software DesignSoftware ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

Learn to write clean maintainable code

The Context of Software Architecture Patterns

What are software architecture patterns
Why software architecture patterns
The difference with design patterns
Categories of patterns

System Patterns

Monolith
N-tier
Service-oriented
Microservices
Serverless
Distributed systems
Peer-to-peer

Application Patterns

Layered
Onion
Ports and adapters (or hexagonal)
Differences between layered, onion, and hexagonal
Modular monolith
Microkernel
CQRS
Event sourcing
Combining CQRS and event sourcing

UI Patterns

Forms and controls
Model-View-Controller
Model-View-Presenter
Model-View-ViewModel
Differences between MVC, MVP, and MVVM

Conclusion

Combining patterns
Next steps