Course - Robust and Scalable Services - DCST2003
Robust and Scalable Services
About
About the course
Course content
- Service architectures
- Automation with platform-independent languages
- Databases and applications
- Accessibility: theory and practice
- Upgrading and maintenance of high-availability infrastructures
- Data storage and distributed databases
- Statistics applications in system administration
- Backup and restore active data
- Performance measurements and analysis
- Monitoring and capacity calculation in dynamic infrastructures
Learning outcome
- Knowledge:
- K1: The candidate has good knowledge of different service architectures and their application.
- K2: The candidate has a good knowledge related to the performance and scalability of architectures.
- K3: The candidate has good knowledge of how to achieve high availability and security.
- Skills:
- F1: The candidate can set up and maintain databases and web-based applications.
- F2: The candidate can set up and maintain high availability mechanisms (load balancing and database replication).
- F3: The candidate can perform performance tests of storage, databases and web servers and apply statistical analyzes to the data.
- F4: The candidate can perform caching in different parts of a service architecture to achieve higher performance.
- F5: The candidate can design and implement a backup system in a dynamic infrastructure as well as carry out recovery.
- General competence:
- G1: The candidate has good knowledge of various approaches and the culture in the field of system administration.
- G2: The candidate has good insight into troubleshooting various infrastructure environments.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, problem solving individually and in groups, lab exercises, online-supported learning.
Compulsory assignments
- Exercises
Further on evaluation
Mandatory course work: All exercises must be accepted to sit the exam.
Resit exam is in August. In the case of a written resit exam, the form can be changed to oral.
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Digital Infrastructure and Cyber Security (BDIGSEC)
Recommended previous knowledge
- DCST1006 Data communication and networks
- DCST2002 Web Development
- IDATT2202 Operating systems
Course materials
Thomas A. Limoncelli ,Strata R. Chalup,Christina J. Hogan. "The Practice of Cloud System Administration", Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (September 13, 2014).
Credit reductions
| Course code | Reduction | From |
|---|---|---|
| DCSG2003 | 7.5 sp | Autumn 2022 |
Subject areas
- Computer Science