The fast, simplified path to becoming a seasoned Solution Architect and a cards & payments domain expert. Three connected tracks follow one company — Acme Corporation, an Indian cards & payments company — as you learn to architect its platform, master the payments domain, and apply microservices patterns.
Scenario-driven. Trade-off aware. Quick, Seasoned & Simplified.
Think, decide, and communicate like a seasoned SA: drivers → requirements → quality attributes → trade-offs → design. Well-architected pillars, HA/DR, security & PCI-DSS, data, cost, and evolutionary architecture — applied to Acme.
Become a payments domain expert: the four-party model (issuer, acquirer, network, switch), UPI & RuPay, NPCI & RBI, PCI-DSS & tokenization, authorization, clearing & settlement, reconciliation, and fraud — India-focused.
Microservices done right (and when NOT to): decomposition, sync vs async, saga, CQRS & event sourcing, transactional outbox & idempotency, API gateway, and resilience — every pattern with a concrete Acme payments example.
Every track follows the same Acme Corporation journey, so the learning connects. Understand the payments domain Acme lives in, architect its next-generation platform against real drivers and constraints, and implement it with the right microservices patterns — the way it happens in a real cards & payments company.