הקורס המתקדם - Backend:Evolve

Session 1 - Advanced API Design

• Retry strategies
• Idempotency patterns
• Rate limiting
• Quota management

Session 2 - Evolving Systems Safely: Side-by-Side Techniques

• Feature flags
• Practical migration strategies in production systems
• Migration levels: Deployment, Routing, Application, Data Store
• Trunk Based Development

Session 3 - Data Consistency and Scaling

• Read and write concerns, Quorum-based approaches, R + W > N
• The shift from database aggregations to large-scale computation models: RDBMS aggregations, MapReduce, Modern data pipelines (e.g., Apache Spark)

Session 4 - Event Driven Architecture

• Domain Driven Design
• Event Sourcing
• Aggregate
• Schema evolution
• Kafka: topics, partitioning, retention, migrations, connectors

Session 5 - Architecture Workshop

This session focuses on hands-on architectural thinking through collaborative design exercises.

• Participants form groups of 2–3 engineers
• Each group receives a system scenario
• The group analyzes requirements, constraints, and assumptions
• Participants design and present a proposed system architecture
• The rest of the class challenges the design through questions and discussion
• Feedback focuses on trade-offs, scalability, and failure considerations

The goal is to practice reasoning about architecture and clearly communicating design decisions.

Session 6 - Operating as a Senior / IC

This session explores the broader skills required to be effective as a senior or as an individual contributor within an engineering organization.

• Understanding organizational structure, culture, and decision-making dynamics
• Managing meetings effectively
• Developing awareness of team dynamics
• Aligning with product teams
• Mentoring engineers
• Evaluating new technologies
• Thinking critically about engineering processes
• Building effective relationships with neighboring teams

The goal is to understand how experienced engineers extend their impact beyond writing code.