In today’s digital age, cloud computing has fundamentally transformed how we work, communicate, and interact. By leveraging distributed systems, it provides flexible and scalable solutions that cater to various computing demands, from storing vast amounts of data to running complex applications.
This is an undergraduate-level course which explores system perspectives of cloud computing, including key concepts and principles in the design and development of cloud systems. This course primarily emphasizes the perspective of system providers rather than users. The lectures cover distributed system concepts such as distributed communication models, synchronization, consistency, fault tolerance, as well as introduction to influential cloud infrastructure and frameworks. Students gain practical experience through the study of algorithms and the project of building distributed applications.