Scale & Reliability
The production environment vendor-agnostically — Borg, Colossus, Chubby aren't trivia, they're the templates Kubernetes/S3/etcd inherited. Then a hands-on observability demo and the synthesis: what to remember, where to go next.
Well-Architected: 6 pillars · Anti-patterns to recognize · Value stream + lead time as the universal performance frame · Three Ways: flow → feedback → experimentation · Flow metrics tell you if your value stream is healthy.
Production environment
How the abstractions stack — vendor-agnostic. Datacenter hierarchy, compute orchestration, the Borg → Kubernetes lineage.
Distributed storage
Local disks → cluster filesystems → database services. The same shape across every major cloud.
Consensus & lock services
When systems must agree on one truth: Chubby, etcd, ZooKeeper, Paxos and Raft. Why outages here cascade.
Live demo · observability
AWS console: CloudWatch metrics, alarms, ASG self-healing, log queries. The four golden signals applied.
Synthesis & next steps
Five things to remember. Career paths in cloud architecture. Where to read next. Module 02 preview.