Cloud Architecture for Software Engineers

Outcomes

• Map provider products back to durable networking, compute, storage, and identity concepts.
• Explain how deployment, scaling, observability, and incident response change production architecture.
• Review a cloud design for trust boundaries, least privilege, failure isolation, and operational cost.

Path

1. Cloud Networking

   Target depth: operate

   Available Atlas content

   • Cloud Networking: Trace Reachability Through Routes, NAT, and Policy

2. Cloud Compute

   Target depth: reason

   Available Atlas content

   • Cloud Compute: Reason About VM Shape, Lifecycle, and Failure Boundaries
   • Containers vs Serverless

3. Containers

   Target depth: operate

   Available Atlas content

   • Containers: Operate Images, Processes, Resources, and Lifecycle
   • Containers vs Serverless

4. Serverless Compute

   Target depth: reason

   Available Atlas content

   • Serverless Compute: Reason About Execution, Scaling, and Failure Semantics
   • Containers vs Serverless

5. Load Balancing

   Target depth: operate

   Available Atlas content

   • Load Balancing: Operate Traffic Distribution, Health, and Draining

6. Cloud Storage Models

   Target depth: reason

   Available Atlas content

   • Cloud Storage Models: Reason About Block, File, Object, and Local State
   • Reliable File Processing Pipeline Walkthrough

7. Cloud IAM

   Target depth: operate

   Available Atlas content

   • Cloud IAM: Operate Identities, Policies, Roles, and Trust
   • Reliable File Processing Pipeline Walkthrough

8. Secrets Management

   Target depth: operate

   Available Atlas content

   • Secrets Management: Operate Storage, Delivery, Rotation, and Revocation

9. Infrastructure as Code

   Target depth: operate

   Available Atlas content

   • Infrastructure as Code: Operate Plans, State, Drift, and Safe Change

10. Autoscaling

    Target depth: reason

    Available Atlas content

    • Autoscaling: Reason About Signals, Feedback Loops, and Capacity Delays
    • Reliable File Processing Pipeline Walkthrough
    • Containers vs Serverless

11. Kubernetes Fundamentals

    Target depth: reason

    Available Atlas content

    • Kubernetes Fundamentals: Reason About Reconciliation, Pods, Scheduling, and Services

12. Logs, Metrics, and Traces

    Target depth: operate

    Available Atlas content

    • Logs, Metrics & Traces: Diagnose Production with Correlated Evidence
    • Safety Nets for Legacy Frontend Upgrades
    • Modernizing a Seven-Year-Old React Application
    • Reliable Checkout Walkthrough
    • Reliable File Processing Pipeline Walkthrough

13. Deployment Strategies

    Target depth: reason

    Available Atlas content

    • Incremental Frontend Migration: Strangler Patterns, Compatibility Boundaries, and Cutovers
    • Modernizing a Seven-Year-Old React Application
    • Containers vs Serverless

14. Incident Response

    Target depth: operate

    No Atlas content yet

15. Threat Modeling

    Target depth: reason

    Available Atlas content

    • Threat Modeling & Least Privilege: Design Security Before the Incident
    • Reliable Checkout Walkthrough

16. Least Privilege

    Target depth: operate

    Available Atlas content

    • Threat Modeling & Least Privilege: Design Security Before the Incident
    • Reliable File Processing Pipeline Walkthrough