The Architect's Master Class is 5 days of training, and is the ultimate resource for the professional architect. The class is conducted in the style of a Master Class, where a Master architect Juval, shares his experience and perspective, and interacts with the students. The class has three parts, on process, technology and SOA, and the IDesign method. While the class shows how to design modern systems, it sets the focus on the 'why and the rationale behind particular design decisions, often shedding light on poorly understood aspects. You will see relevant design guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls, and the crucial process skill required of today's architects.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn and improve your architecture skills with Juval Lowy, and share his passion for architecture and software engineering.

About Juval Lowy

Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, specialising in .NET 3.0 architecture consulting and advanced .NET 3.0 training. Juval is Microsoft's Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 3.0. Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognised Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders. Learn more about this course.

Course Overview

While many developers and managers have a clear idea regarding the characteristics and practices, and corresponding set of responsibilities of their own roles, the picture is often vague when it comes to software architects. What is the single most important task facing the software architect? What is the division of labor and responsibilities between the architect and the project manager? How much the architecture should be tied in to the particulars of the underlying technology used, or for that matter, for the specifics of the projects? What are the necessary skills and analysis tools employed by an architect? How do you validate the design before construction? How do methodologies such as service-orientation affect the design and development process? What are software architecture best practices, guidelines and pitfalls? How do you go about designing world-class systems? How do you make the transition from abstract design patterns and concepts to concrete development decisions? The class answers the above questions using a combination of frontal lecture and interactive and accelerated design sessions. Conducted in the style of a classic Master Class, the IDesign architect will provide the common foundation of modern service-oriented applications required by software architects.

Noteworthy is that this class is called the Architect’s Master Class (as opposed to the Architecture Master Class) because it is dedicated to core body of knowledge required of today’s architects, knowledge that transcends mere design patterns and architecture. The core body of knowledge comprises of three elements: development process and project leadership skills, technology, and finally analysis and design. The class agenda reflects these three elements.

The first day is devoted to the accompanying service-oriented development process and the required project management skills. The second and third days are an accelerate course in WCF, ensuring the architect is a qualified technical lead in all aspects of WCF, such as interface-based design and factoring, service oriented design, general design principal and patterns concerning reliability, data transfer, instance management scalability and throughput, availability and responsiveness, loosely coupled systems, fault propagation, transaction management, concurrency management and security scenarios.

In the fourth and fifth day Juval Lowy will explain the IDesign original approach to large system analysis and design and the IDesign Method™ for capturing the design decisions. Juval will interactively design one or two systems by soliciting from the students requirements for an actual application, and proceeding in real time to design the system, outlining the architecture that addresses the requirements, discussing logical tiers, security, interoperability, scalability, transactions, and other aspects of a service-oriented application. Lastly, you will see how to convert and execute on the design diagrams a vertical slice of the system design. Students will see how to approach rarely discussed topics such as allocation of services to assemblies, allocation of services to processes, transaction boundaries, identity management, authorization and authentication boundaries and more.

Target Audience

Any .NET architect, project lead or senior developer would benefit greatly from the class. The class relies on WCF as a reference model. Prior knowledge of WCF is necessary. 

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Testimonials

"The Architect’s class transcends technological trends and gives you practical knowledge that will be useful for almost any platform and for the rest of your career."

"The incredible amount of experience and knowledge presented during the Architect’s Master class has completely changed the way I think about software architecture."