CS-548

Cloud-native Software Architectures

Postgraduate

The Internet provides services to billions of users worldwide. News sites, social media networks, e-shops, government agencies, and so on, must be online around the clock, no matter the load. As such, contemporary Internet-scale applications are deployed in the Cloud. Their internal architectures have evolved into complex webs of “microservices”, physically dispersed around the globe, using virtualized resources and software components supplied by the cloud providers. In this course we explore the structure of large-scale Internet services and focus on the techniques and tools used to build and deploy modern-day applications in cloud platforms, including containers and “serverless” functions. Through a series of hands-on sessions and assignments students are guided into mastering the advanced usage and understanding the working internals of Kubernetes, which has become the de facto standard for abstract, cross-cloud service composition. Additionally, we expand on how Kubernetes is actually used by big cloud providers, such as Amazon and Google, and how deployed container-based microservice architectures can utilize respective supporting services and APIs to achieve uninterrupted operation at a global-scale.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Knowledge: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student gains insight into the world of Cloud-native applications and services, Cloud offerings, and the tools for distributed containerized execution.
2. Understanding: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to realize the inner workings of container runtimes, container orchestration frameworks (i.e., Kubernetes), and high-level Cloud services.
3. Application: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to build, compile and execute a complex Internet-scale application in the Cloud.
4. Analysis: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to break down applications into microservice architectures utilizing Cloud service offerings, such as serverless functions.
5. Synthesis: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to apply techniques and tools for writing large-scale applications, manage library requirements, integrate into containers, and deploy to the Cloud.
6. Evaluation: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to evaluate  the distinctive specifications of both large-scale applications and the Cloud offerings.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
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CS-335, CS-345

http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~hy548