Systems/Software Engineering

Course overview

A systems-oriented course focused on how software behaves across processes, networks, storage, and service boundaries. Learners analyze system requirements, design components, reason about concurrency and failure, and document architectural trade-offs rather than building another web application.

Who it's for: Developers with programming experience who want stronger foundations in software architecture and system behavior.

What you will learn

• Explain processes, memory, files, and network communication
• Design modular systems and document architecture decisions
• Reason about concurrency, failure, and data consistency
• Apply testing and observability to system components

Curriculum

Tools you'll use

Projects you'll build

• Architecture decision record set
• Resilient service design
• Systems behavior analysis

Prerequisites

• • Experience writing programs in one language
• • Basic command-line familiarity