Courses Taught by Dr. Riad Sonbol

Software Architecture Design (Syrian Private University)

Faculty of Engineering - Artificial Intelligence Engineering

[Last Updated: 2026] This course introduces principles and practices of designing the structure of complex software systems.

Materials

Topic No. Title Description Download
Topic 01 General Principles in Software Design and Architecture System Decomposition, What is Good Design? πŸ“₯ PDF
Topic 02 Software Architecture Style: Layered Architecture Layered Architecture, case study discussion, How to Handle the communication between Layers, FaΓ§ade Design Pattern, and Dependency Injection πŸ“₯ PDF
Topic 03 More Classical Software Architectures n-Tier, Client-server, Peer-to-Peer, MVC πŸ“₯ PDF
Topic 04 Microservices Architecture Domain-Driven Design, Monolithic vs Microservices, Why Microservices?, practical issues, Message Broker, Related Design Patterns: CQRS, API Gateway, Strangler Pattern, Externalized Configuration, case study πŸ“₯ PDF
Topic 05 Clean Architecture The Hexagonal Architecture, Ports and Adapters, the Flow πŸ“₯ PDF
Topic 06 More Architectural Styles Repository, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Pipes and Filters, Event-Driven Architecture πŸ“₯ PDF