- Course Title: Network Structure & Cloud Computing
- Course Number: CSYE 7125
- Term and Year: Fall 2023
- Credit Hour: 4
| Section | Campus | CRN |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Boston, MA | 14560 |
- Full Name: Tejas Parikh
- Email Address: [email protected]
- GitHub ID: tejasparikh
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Microservices, containers, and container orchestration have fundamentally changed how distributed systems are developed...
- Graduate level CSYE 6225 Minimum Grade of B
- Hybrid Cloud Computing
- Hybrid Cloud Connectivity & VPC Peering
- Linux containers
- Container Orchestration w/Kubernetes
- Version Control with Git
- Computer Networking for multi-cloud connectivity
- Microservices Architecture, Service Discovery, Load Balancers
- Identity & Access Management
- Infrastructure as Code w/Ansible
- Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment w/Jenkins
- Logging with Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana
- Metrics with Prometheus, and Grafana
- Auto-scaling Applications and Infrastructure
- Sidecar pattern, Ambassador pattern, and Adapter pattern
- Securing cloud applications and infrastructure
- Extending Kubernetes w/Operators written in Go
- Understand the difference between public, private, and hybrid cloud and be able to pick the right architecture for your computing environment needs.
- Learn advanced cloud computing topics such as DNS, service discovery, load balancing, auto-scaling infrastructure, auto-scaling applications, metrics, monitoring, health checks, and logging.
- Gain hands-on experience with Linux containers and container orchestration.
- Learn to set up secure hybrid cloud environments with Infrastructure as Code concepts.
- Hands-on experience with architecture patterns to aid migration of monolithic applications to the cloud.
- Learn to architect and build microservices using concepts such as polyglot programming, polyglot persistence, scalability, reliability, and operational visibility.
- Learn to implement GitOps, continuous integration, and continuous deployment for applications.
- Understand the challenges of running distributed systems in the cloud and deploying them for high availability and high reliability.
- Learn to extend Kubernetes with Operators.
- Utilize the course content to select technologies you wish to use in your work or company.
There are no required textbooks for this course. However, you might find books and reading material listed in lectures helpful in mastering the topics covered in this course. Many of these books are available to you free of charge via Northeastern University's Safari Learning Platform (O'Reilly) subscription. Students are solely responsible for cost to acquire tools listed below. Northeastern University, College of Engineering, and the instructor will not be responsible for any charges incurred. Sign-ups with cloud service providers might require a valid credit or debit card even for free tiers.
- The Little Go Book
- The Go Programming Language
- Kubernetes in Action (ISBN: 9781617293726)
- OpenShift in Action (ISBN: 9781617294839)
- Designing Distributed Systems (ISBN: 9781491983645). Download ebook from here.
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ISBN: 9781449373320)
- Docker: Up & Running (ISBN: 9781491917572)
- Docker in Action (ISBN: 9781633430235)
- Docker in Practice (ISBN: 9781617294808)
- Pro Git (ISBN: 9781484200773)
- Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture (ISBN: 9780133387520)
- Google Cloud Platform in Action (ISBN: 9781617293528)
- Amazon Web Services in Action (ISBN: 9781617292880)
- Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (ISBN: 9781491929124). This book is also available online for free on Google’s site.
- The Phoenix Project (ISBN: 9780988262508)
- The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (ISBN: 9781942788003)
- UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (ISBN: 9780131480056)
- The Linux Command Line (ISBN: 9781593273897)
- Linux Documentation
Students are expected to complete course readings, participate in class discussions or other learning activities during the unit, and complete written assignments for each unit during the time of that unit. It is understood that there might be one week when active participation in ongoing class conversations and learning activities might be delayed. Beyond one week time, if there is an absence or lateness in participation (1) faculty must be notified in advance; (2) grades will be adjusted accordingly.
Students will be assigned assignments at the end of the lecture. Assignment due dates will be posted with each assignment. Given that an assignment is due every week, if you fall behind on an assignment, it will be extremely difficult to catch up as the next assignment depends on it.
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Grading will be based on the absolute grading system. In this grading system, a range of point values is assigned to a letter grade. The grading is absolute, irrespective of the grade of other students in the class. I do not round scores to the closest percentage.
| Letter Grade | Range |
|---|---|
| A | 100% to 95.0% |
| A- | < 95.0% to 90.0% |
| B+ | < 90.0% to 87.0% |
| B | < 87.0% to 84.0% |
| B- | < 84.0% to 80.0% |
| C+ | < 80.0% to 77.0% |
| C | < 77.0% to 74.0% |
| C- | < 74.0% to 70.0% |
| F | < 70.0% to 00.0% |
| Grades | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Assignments & Projects | 60% |
| Exams | 25% |
| Participation & Discussion | 15% |
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In-person, subject-type pen and paper exam for 100 marks.
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