CSC 5201 - Microservices and Cloud Computing

• Leverage containerization to package and run software 
• Design and implement a basic microservice that interacts through REST APIs, implements access control, uses distributed storage systems, and is deployed in a containerized form 
• Apply access control patterns using authentication and authorization following security best practices 
• Analyze and identify potential throughput, scalability, reliability, and consistency issues with distributed microservice architectures 
• Create and manage continuous integration and deployment to automate software related to microservices and pipelines 
• Deploy a multi-service distributed application using a container orchestration tool 

• Version control/Git
• Proficiency in a high-level object-oriented programming language including use of data structures, designing classes, and applications of software design techniques
• Introductory knowledge of database languages (e.g., SQL) for querying, manipulating, and basic management of databases
• Design and implementation of simple relational database applications
• Introductory knowledge of client-server and event-driven programming paradigms, including an example of networked communication
• Use of web application programming interfaces
• Design and implementation of simple web services using server-side technologies
• Familiarity with the Linux command-line or similar

• Virtual machines and containers and associated best practices for writing containerized, stateless applications 
• Microservice architectures and implementation patterns including event-driven architectures and designing and implementing REST APIs 
• Distributed storage systems (e.g., key-value stores, columnar stores, object stores, distributed file systems, and relational databases), tradeoffs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance, and efficient access patterns 
• Continuous integration and deployment technologies and usage patterns 
• Tooling for orchestration and deployment of multi-service systems 
• Software, Function, Platform, and Infrastructure as service paradigms and implementing systems 
• Discussion of public cloud services and comparisons of their offerings