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11 - Distributed Systems (Part 2)

Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn to:

• Recognize common software architectures
• Understand tradeoffs of scalability, performance, and fault tolerance between these architectures
• Explain the basic principles of the REST and WebSocket communication patterns

Lecture Slides:

• Distributing Processing Slides PDF, PPT
• Case Studies Slides PDF, PPT
• Communicaton Patterns Slides PDF, PPT

Activity

• No Activity for this module

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Socket IO

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”
• On NFS: “Operatign Systems, Three Easy Pieces” Chapter 49 by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
• On GFS: “The Google File System” by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung, SOSP 2003
• “What is a REST API?”
• Socket.io - a library for real-time web applications