architecture

Strip any robot to its bones and you find three things: sensors that gather data, a controller that thinks, and actuators that move. Learn how these pieces fit together through the Sense-Plan-Act paradigm, why reactive control sometimes beats planning, and what makes a Roomba and a welding arm both qualify as robots.

The honest case for each. When a monolith is correct, what microservices actually buy you (and what they cost), Conway's law, and how to spot a fake microservices architecture that's actually a distributed monolith.

Explore the data lakehouse, a modern architecture that merges the cost-efficiency and flexibility of data lakes with the performance and reliability of data warehouses. This lesson covers its core components, benefits, and the open-source technologies that make it possible.