Cloud Computing Concepts, Part 1

Cloud computing systems today, whether open-source or used inside companies, are built using a common set of core techniques, algorithms, and design philosophies – all centered around distributed systems. Learn about such fundamental distributed computing “concepts” for cloud computing.Some of these concepts include: clouds, MapReduce, key-value/NoSQL stores, classical distributed algorithms, widely-used distributed algorithms, scalability, trending areas, and much, much more!

Know how these systems work from the inside out. Get your hands dirty using these concepts with provided homework exercises. In the programming assignments, implement some of these concepts in template code (programs) provided in the C++ programming language. Prior experience with C++ is required.

The course also features interviews with leading researchers and managers, from both industry and academia.

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Syllabus

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Week 1: Orientation, Introduction to Clouds, MapReduce
Week 2
Week 2: Gossip, Membership, and Grids
Week 3
Week 3: P2P Systems
Week 4
Week 4: Key-Value Stores, Time, and Ordering
Week 5
Week 5: Classical Distributed Algorithms

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Reviews

This instructor is fantastic. He is exceptionally thorough and his delivery is very good as well. This is a course definitely worth taking if you are interested in learning more about the cloud.

I'm really enjoying this course. The topics discussed by professor are interesting and build the base to understand many current systems we use nowadays.

Great lectures. However, the starter code for the programming assignment is quite atrocious. Overall, would highly recommend to anyone wanting to learn high level concepts in distributed systems.

Excellent primer on distributed systems theory and practice, but the programming assignment was complicated by low quality template code.