Architecture and Engineering: Home

Welcome to the Open edX Architecture and Engineering Space! Take a look around and feel free to contribute and post comments.

Here are a few noteworthy pages in this space:

Architecture Learning Resources, plus Architecture Onboarding Prez	recommended readings and resources for learning about software architecture, including reference to the latest architecture onboarding presentation.
Architecture Vision & Principles	contains diagrams and description of the future direction of the platform, plus architecture principles/manifesto for the platform.
edX Glossary	is a dictionary of common edX terms.
How-Tos	collects documents with how-tos on various development and deployment operations. (These should eventually be moved to a more permanent location in Github.)
Architecture Design Documents (-> OEPs instead)	houses helpful information about the current and near-future architecture of Open edX. (These should eventually be moved to a more permanent location in Github.)
Architecture Notes and Thoughts	time-sensitive notes and discussions that may no longer be accurate. Feel free to use this section for discussing ideas with the community.
Platform-Core Team	provides information on the roadmap, project plans, and further detail of on-going work by the edX Architecture team.

You may also be interested in the following documents (located outside of this space):

Developer Documentation	Public top-level index of Open edX developer documents.
Engineering (edX-Internal)	Private top-level index of edX developer documents.
Open edX Operations	Confluence pages for people installing, running, and managing Open edX installations.
OXA	Common questions and answers from the Open edX community.
Frontend Development	Wiki space for temporary documentation on Open edX frontend development.

Questions? Contact our Chief Architect, Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated) by slack (@nimisha) or email.

Architecture and Engineering