Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn to:

• Recognize common software architectures
• Understand tradeoffs of scalability, performance, and fault tolerance between these architectures
• Describe what makes web services RESTful, and implement a REST API

Lecture Slides:

• Distributing Processing Slides PDF, PPT
• Case Studies Slides PDF, PPT
• REST APIs Slides PDF, PPT

Activity

• Activity: Transcript REST Server

Resources

• “Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit” by Mikito Takada
• Online book chapter: “Thinking Like a Software Architect” by Christian Kästner
• Podcast: “Chris Richardson on Microservice Patterns” - SE Radio
• Counterpoint podcast: “Roberta Arcoverde on Stack Overflow’s Monolith”
• “What is a REST API?”