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Learning Resources

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/production/semester-08-system-design-leadership/module-03-event-driven-architecture/resources.md
  • App: production
  • Semester: semester-08-system-design-leadership
  • Module: module-03-event-driven-architecture
  • Unit kind: resource
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives

  • Explain Learning Resources in terms of events, temporal coupling, and consistency tradeoffs instead of diagram-first messaging vocabulary.
  • Use Learning Resources to predict how data, retries, ordering, and observability will behave when workflows are split across asynchronous boundaries.
  • Use fundamentals-of-software-architecture, system-design-primer to connect the learner explanation to streams, event contracts, choreography, and coordination failure modes.

Prerequisites

  • Comfort with service decomposition, distributed communication, and consistency tradeoffs from the earlier modules.

Source books

  • fundamentals-of-software-architecture
  • system-design-primer

Source routes

Fundamentals Of Software Architecture

  • /books/fundamentals-of-software-architecture via 041 -- Event-Driven Architecture Style, 041 — Event-Driven Architecture Style, 042 -- Mediator Topology, 042 — Mediator Topology, 043 -- Asynchronous Capabilities, 043 — Asynchronous Capabilities, 044 -- Preventing Data Loss, 044 — Preventing Data Loss, 045 -- Request-Reply, 045 — Request-Reply, 046 -- Event-Driven Ratings, 046 — Event-Driven Ratings, 049 -- Data Collisions, 049 — Data Collisions, Richards & Ford: Asynchronous Capabilities, Richards & Ford: Event-Driven Architecture Style, Richards & Ford: Event-Driven Ratings, Richards & Ford: Mediator Topology, Richards & Ford: Preventing Data Loss, Richards & Ford: Request-Reply

System Design Primer

  • /books/system-design-primer via 05 -- Consistency patterns, 05 — Consistency patterns, 06 -- Availability patterns, 06 — Availability patterns, 13 -- Database federation / sharding, 13 — Database federation / sharding, 17 -- Cache update patterns, 17 — Cache update patterns, 18 -- Asynchronism, 18 — Asynchronism, 21 -- Communication: RPC / REST, 21 — Communication: RPC / REST, System Design Primer: Asynchronism, System Design Primer: Availability patterns, System Design Primer: Federation/sharding

Supporting curriculum routes

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External enrichment

AI companion modes

  • Explain simply
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Revision mode
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Learning Resources, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.