Build applications on the cloud
Learn how developers write programs that run on the cloud, including how to deploy, be fault-tolerant, load balance, scale, and deal with latency.
Learning objectives
In this module, you will:
- Evaluate different considerations when programming applications that run on clouds
- Evaluate different considerations when deploying applications on clouds
- Compare and contrast proactive and reactive measures for fault tolerance in cloud applications
- Describe the importance of load balancing in cloud applications and enumerate various methods to achieve it
- Enumerate the strategies and considerations in scaling cloud applications
- Motivate the case for minimizing tail latency and discuss the various strategies to reduce tail latency
- Describe the strategies to optimize total operational cost of using cloud services
In partnership with Dr. Majd Sakr and Carnegie Mellon University.
Prerequisites
- Understand what cloud computing is, including cloud service models, and common cloud providers
- Know the technologies that enable cloud computing
- Understand how cloud service providers pay for and bill for the cloud
- Know what datacenters are and why they exist
- Know how datacenters are set up, powered, and provisioned
- Understand how cloud resources are provisioned and metered