Macro Patterns
Consortium
A self-paced systems and enterprise architecture course by an individual instructor, written for software engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers who want to move toward architect roles.
We bridge academic rigor and hands-on synthesis. Write architecture-as-code side-by-side with long-form documentation frameworks, verified in real-time by our interactive AI Mentor.
The Three Pillars of MPC Academy
We eliminate simple multi-choice quizzes. Systems architects must visualize, build, and document.
1. Academic & Curriculum Depth
Extensive technical reading covering distributed compute, database internals, cache invalidation, edge routing, microservices, and SAGAs. Supplemented by curated video crash courses with high-integrity summaries for rapid concept absorption.
2. Interactive Architecture Sandbox
An embedded visual workspace powered by **Draw.io**. Design distributed microservice topologies, database structures, event streams, and C4 models directly in the canvas alongside your system blueprints and AI mentor feedback.
3. Cognitive AI Guidance (BYOK)
Receive interactive hints, review code structures, and evaluate capstone challenges. Guided with a baseline of 3 daily hints. Seamlessly extend to infinite mentoring with your own free Google AI Studio Key.
The 23-Module Systems Roadmap
An intensive self-paced program requiring approximately **40 hours** of system design modeling and documentation. Master distributed system patterns, draw architecture diagrams on the integrated canvas, and pass the final Capstones to earn credentials.
Applying SOLID to prevent structural code rot. Static analysis contracts.
UML Class Scratchpads, diagram layout mapping, SDS documentation.
Ports & adapters, Onion patterns, framework decoupling and architectural linting.
TCP/UDP, HTTP/3, Anycast DNS, reverse proxy structures, NGINX configurations.
SQL indexes (B-Trees), Sharding, replication models, entity mapping structures.
Distributed caching (Redis), eviction policies (LRU/LFU), CDNs, invalidation.
Distributed constraints, latency vs consistency, FMEA maps.
Strategic DDD boundaries, context maps, REST vs gRPC protocols.
Kafka/RabbitMQ event streams, partition structures, out-of-order handling.
C4 architecture models (Context, Containers, Components), formal UML design.
Orchestration vs Choreography, compensation playbooks, cloud transaction mechanics.
Command-Query separation, write stores (EventStoreDB), projection synchronization.
Rate limiting token buckets, JWT token verification at edge layers.
Circuit breakers (Envoy/Istio), retry patterns with exponential jitter, bulkheads.
Canary weighing, Kubernetes rolling deployments, AWS pricing and cloud network egress optimization.
Compute primitives (FaaS vs VMs), routing VPCs, active-active replication, cost-aware architecture.
Telemetry tracing, context propagation, RED/USE metrics, SLO error budgets.
Docker containment, Kubernetes schedules, Ingress routing, horizontal scaling.
Conway's Law, team boundaries, strangler fig migrations, Anti-Corruption Layers, high-integrity ADRs.
Earn a Certificate of Completion
Upon passing the Capstone simulations, you receive a certificate of completion with a unique verification link.
Every certificate has its own verification page (/verify/[certId]) and can be shared on LinkedIn. It is a certificate of completion, not an accredited qualification.
Led by Industry Expertise
MPC is designed and instructed by **Bishwambhar Sen**, a Principal Software Engineer at Dell with 17 years of experience building, scaling, and maintaining high-throughput distributed systems.
This curriculum represents a synthesis of real-world production playbooks, architectural review guidelines, and lessons learned from deploying enterprise-grade systems at scale. No listicles, no surface-level summaries—just direct systems architecture from first principles.