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AI-Driven Software Architecture: Design Systems That Hold Up

For solution, software and cloud architects, technical leads and senior engineers who know APIs and one cloud.

35 lessons · 2.0 hours
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What you will be able to do

Turn a business request into the quality attributes that drive a designChoose between monolith and microservices, and events and APIs, on evidenceDocument a design with C4 views, API contracts and Mermaid diagramsPlace models, retrieval, ingestion, a model gateway and agents in a layered designWrite architecture decision records and weigh trade-offs with evidenceThreat model an AI system and plan identity, observability and staged releases

Skills you will gain

  • Quality attributes
  • Architecture decision records
  • C4 and Mermaid diagrams
  • RAG architecture
  • Model gateway design
  • Threat modelling

About this course

For solution, software and cloud architects, technical leads and senior engineers who know APIs and one cloud. Decide where AI belongs in a system and record why. Test claims instead of trusting them, choose between monolith and microservices, events and APIs, RAG and agents, and document the result with contracts and Mermaid diagrams. Place models, retrieval, ingestion, a model gateway and agents in a layered design, use MCP on its current 2026 revision with limits enforced in code, and plan identity, containers, observability and staged releases. Write architecture decision records, weigh trade-offs with evidence and threat model the design. Follow one made up bank, Orchardley Bank, through a returns system, and finish with a free hands-on lab on your own machine.

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Curriculum

8 modules · 35 lessons · 2.0h
WelcomeFree preview3 min

Requirements

APIs, databases and basic cloud ideas
Used a chat assistant for work
Comfort reading short code and diagrams
The habit of asking what a design costs

What you walk away with

A Yallo AI academy certificate of completion, issued when every lesson is complete and the final assessment is passed at 70% or aboveA public verification page, so a stranger can check the certificate without asking you for a filePDF download, and a one-click share to your LinkedIn profile

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AI-Driven Software Architecture: Design Systems That Hold Up