Master Software Architecture from Scratch: A Complete Learning Roadmap

The author explains why this series is written, citing industry trends that predict rapid growth of architect roles, a 2015 promise to cover large‑site architecture, and personal insights that technology equals architecture and work equals management.

The series targets developers, senior developers, junior architects, and anyone interested in architecture, aiming to benefit junior architects by covering fundamentals, growth paths, system modeling, patterns, processes, and more.

Publication Schedule

Approximately one topic every two weeks, published on Blog园 and the personal WeChat public account “Architecture Home”.

Planned Article Outline

1. Architecture Career Path – definition of architecture, workflow, responsibilities, growth path, depth, breadth, technology, business, management.

2. Architecture Knowledge Domains – methodologies (procedural, OOP, AOP), service orientation, system/subsystem/module, basic principles, patterns (design, architecture, infrastructure), 4+1 view.

3. UML Modeling – static, dynamic, behavioral models.

4. Requirements Analysis – engineering, specifications, use‑case design, business architecture.

5. System Design – design thinking, conceptual, initial, refined architecture, validation.

6. Deployment Architecture – logical, physical architecture, network segmentation, capacity estimation.

7. Layered Architecture – three‑tier (presentation MVC, service, DAO), multi‑layer.

8. Technical Architecture – directory structure, frameworks, logging, exception handling, utilities, transaction management, dependency management, CI.

9. Architecture Cases – single sign‑on, product system, membership system, order system, payment system.

10. Data Architecture – data architecture, database design, read/write separation, sharding.

11. Interface Design – interaction methods, communication protocols, data structures, interface templates.

12. Development Standards – standards, team agreements, tools, frameworks.

13. Design Patterns – principles, creational, structural, behavioral patterns.

14. Architecture Patterns

15. Infrastructure Patterns

16. Software Engineering – development process, project management, product lines, dependency management, CI, release management.

17. Architecture Refactoring

18. Architecture Summary – front‑end, back‑end, micro‑services, big‑data, e‑commerce, operations architectures.