Cloud Architect Master Skill

This skill provides advanced cloud architecture guidance.

Architecture Patterns

• Microservices vs modular monolith
• Event-driven architectures
• CQRS and event sourcing
• Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
• API gateway patterns

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid

• Portable workloads (Kubernetes)
• Cloud-agnostic services
• Data gravity considerations
• Failover and DR strategies
• Cost optimization across clouds

Serverless

• Function design patterns
• Cold start mitigation
• Event sourcing with serverless
• Step Functions / Workflows
• Observability challenges

Automation

• GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Policy as Code (OPA, Kyverno)
• Drift detection
• Self-healing infrastructure