Designing Well Architected Framework Workshop - Deep Dive
Secure, Efficient, Resilient, High-performing, Sustainable, and Cost-effective
Are your applications well-architected? This talk will explore the best practices for operational excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and cost optimization. Think of systems and services which provide business values. Do you know if all of these services are well-architected? You will learn how to create mechanisms, a repeatable process that allows you to improve over time. We will explore the best practices using real-world examples to make them more concrete and actionable.
Well-Architected helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for various applications and workloads. They are built around six pillars—operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
Join expert Rohit Bhardwaj to gain the knowledge and skills you need to solve current cloud implementation problems.
Topics covered
Design Principles
Scaling patterns
Architecture Design Principles
Capacity calculations
Impact of data on design decisions
Shared Responsibility Model
Reliability
Resilient Architecture principles
Herds of complex real-time distributed systems
Hands-on Exercises / Case Studies
Blast radius- fault isolation to protect your workload - 10 minutes
Availability patterns - 10 minutes
Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objectives
Data backup data patterns
Routing Strategies - 10 minutes
Service quotas and constraints - 5 minutes
Design your workload service architecture - 5 minutes
Failure management in a distributed system
Monitoring workload resources
Calculating the response times
Fallacies of Distributed Systems
Testing reliability
Hands-on Exercises / Case Studies
Cost Optimization
Design cost-optimized storage
Cost-optimized compute
Data transfer costs
Manage demand and supply resources
Hands-on Exercises / Case Studies
Sustainability
User behavior patterns
Data access and usage patterns
Development and deployment processes
Hands-on Exercises / Case Studies
Performance Efficiency
Select the best-performing architecture
Choosing performant storage and databases?
No-SQL for performance
Caching strategies
DOS attacks
Tradeoffs to improve performance
Evolving your workload
Handle skewed data
CDN networks like Cloudfront to solve the caching requirements for static and Dynamic contents
Monitor and set alarms for performance and network issues
Hands-on Exercises / Case Studies
Operational Excellence
Principles for Perform Operation Infrastructure as code
Annotate Documentation - PlayBooks - Part of code
Create Runbooks - Server down
Capture failures and analyze them using Events and Real-Time Actions
KPIs for cloud dashboard
Incidence response - Root Cause Analysis
Hands-on Exercises / Case Studies
Security, Privacy, and Compliance
Manage identities for people and machines
Identify Access Management Role-Based, Service-Based, and Attribute-Based Access
Securely operate your workload.
Detect and investigate security events
Web Application Firewall
Virtual Private Cloud - design network topology
Protecting your network resources
Bastion Hosts
Data classification
Protecting data in Transit
Protecting data at Rest
Hands-on Exercises / Case Studies
About Rohit Bhardwaj
Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.
Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.
Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)
Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/
Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.
As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.
Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.
Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1