Overview
What this challenge is about.
Redesign a B2B analytics monolith for multi-tenant isolation, GDPR, and SOC 2. Defend a safe incremental migration plan. Earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
DataFlow serves mid-market analytics customers across the Netherlands and is transitioning from self-serve adoption to contract-based enterprise sales, where deals now stall on security questionnaires and data-isolation requirements its current platform cannot satisfy.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Decide how to evolve a single-application, single-database SaaS platform into an architecture that can isolate tenants, pass compliance audits, and support enterprise integrations without a risky full rewrite.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Diagnose the scaling, isolation, and compliance limits of a shared-database monolith from concrete operational evidence
- Design a multi-tenant target architecture that balances isolation strength against operational cost
- Map regulatory and audit requirements (GDPR, SOC 2) to concrete architectural controls
- Plan an incremental monolith decomposition that keeps the business running during migration
- Communicate architectural trade-offs clearly enough to win buy-in from technical and business stakeholders
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Microservices
Apply microservices to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Multi Tenancy
Apply multi tenancy to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Cloud Architecture
Apply cloud architecture to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Compliance
Apply compliance to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Migration Strategy
Apply migration strategy to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Solutions Architect
Designing a multi-tenant target system and defending its trade-offs mirrors the core of solutions architecture: translating customer and compliance demands into a concrete, scalable cloud design that engineering can build.
This challenge sharpens
- microservices
- multi-tenancy
- cloud-architecture
Cloud Migration Consultant
Producing a phased strangler-fig roadmap for a live product is exactly what migration consultants deliver: sequencing decomposition, managing risk, and keeping the business running while modernizing legacy systems.
This challenge sharpens
- migration-strategy
- cloud-architecture
- microservices
Platform Compliance Engineer
Mapping enterprise requirements to tenant-isolation and audit controls bridges directly to compliance engineering, where you turn GDPR and SOC 2 obligations into enforceable architectural and platform safeguards.
This challenge sharpens
- compliance
- multi-tenancy
- cloud-architecture