Course

LCSS - Large and Cloud-based Software-Systems

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Long name Large and Cloud-based Software-Systems
Approving CModule LCSS_MaTIN
Responsible
Prof. Dr. René Wörzberger
Professor Fakultät IME
Organisation and materials Ilu course
Level Master
Semester in the year summer semester
Duration Semester
Hours in self-study 78
ECTS 5
Professors
Prof. Dr. René Wörzberger
Professor Fakultät IME
Requirements

  • advanced programming skills

  • basic knowledge of web technologies

  • basic knowledge of databases

  • basic knowledge in software architectures

  • basic knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Language English
Separate final exam Yes
Literature
keine/none
Overview video
Final exam
Details
The final examination is either written or oral. Students must demonstrate that they can apply the knowledge and skills of the course.
Minimum standard
50% of all achievable points
Exam Type
The final examination is either written or oral. Students must demonstrate that they can apply the knowledge and skills of the course.

Learning goals
Knowledge
Basic concepts of large distributed systems
Quality attributes and their interdependencies
Formulate and analyze requirements for response times, throughput and utilization of a system
Analyze and formulate requirements for the reliability of a system
Basic concepts of maintainability of a system
Basic concepts of the security of a system
System design goals, requirements, principles and patterns
Decomposition patterns
Trading the advantages and disadvantages of monolithic architectures against architectures of distributed systems (microservices)
Patterns for scaling systems
Communication patterns in distributed systems
Modeling of large systems from different viewpoints with the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Common infrastructure and middleware components in large systems
Principles and terms of cloud computing
Virtualization and container technologies
Application layer protocol, especially HTTP and related technologies and standards such as REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, Server-sent events.
Web security protocols such as TLS, OAuth, OpenID Connect
Messaging and streaming
Database systems, their data models, scaling and consistency models
Distributed database transaction programming
Expenditure classroom teaching
Type Attendance (h/Wk.)
Lecture 2
Exercises (whole course) 1
Special literature
keine/none
Special requirements
none
Accompanying material
.
Separate exam
none

Learning goals
Skills
Be able to formulate and present a research question in the topic area of the course.
Design an application prototype that serves to investigate the research question.
Develop the application prototype and run it in the cloud
Design and conduct test scenarios and experiments with the application prototype to answer the research question.
Consolidate results into one report according to an IEEE template
Work collaboratively in a team of about four people
Expenditure classroom teaching
Type Attendance (h/Wk.)
Practical training 1
Special literature
keine/none
Special requirements
none
Accompanying material
  • Lab assignments
  • templates
Separate exam
Exam Type
working on projects assignment with your team e.g. in a lab)
Details
The lab consists of several milestones and attendance dates, in which the research question, the design of the prototype, a mutual review, the presentation and documentation of the final results must be submitted or presented.
The performance in the lab will be 50% of the final grade.
Minimum standard
A qualitatively and quantitatively sufficient contribution of each team member must be evident in the presentations and deliveries.

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