This workshop taught by Mark Richards is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and roadmap necessary to become an effective software architect. Being a software architect is much more than just drawing boxes and lines. It's about thinking like an architect, being a leader, and understanding the architectural elements, patterns, and styles necessary to create effective software architectures. Through interactive course materials and architecture exercises, this course will teach you the technical aspects of software architecture as well as how to make effective architecture decisions. Knowing what architecture styles best fit your situation is critical to the success of your system. In this course you will gain an in-depth understanding of many different architecture styles and patterns, including event-driven, microkernel, space-based, microservices, and service-based architectures. You will learn how each pattern works, the major characteristics of each pattern, and how to use each architecture style to create an effective software architecture that matches your business needs and requirements.