Computer Science Department, University of Crete
HY-559 Infrastructure Technologies for Large-Scale Service-Oriented Systems

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Course Staff

Name Email Office Hours
Instructor: Kostas Magoutis hy559@csd By appt./H-311
Teaching Assistant: Stratos Ntallaris hy559@csd By appt.

General Information

The course meets Thu 4pm and Fri at 10am in H.208. See schedule for exact dates.

Announcements

1.08.2024 10:00: You are welcome to get in touch with the instructor to discuss course-related issues.

1.08.2024 10:00: We will be using the AWS Academy cloud platform for course assignments, you may find our course page here.

Course Description

The explosive growth of e-services in recent years has created the need to design, implement, and manage infrastructures that support large-scale service-oriented systems. The course offers an introduction to the scalable infrastructure technologies designed to support large-scale e-services. In the course we will examine existing design techniques and research problems in the design and implementation of these systems as well as their possible solutions.

The course focuses on large-scale service-oriented systems and their architectures (Web services, service-oriented architectures, service mashups, etc.); design principles for scalable high performance; management of infrastructural service-level agreements (SLAs); information lifecycle management; configuration and change management databases and ITIL processes; design optimization to meet application requirements; the role of the human factor in service engagements; service delivery models; and several case studies (Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Facebook).

This course is targeted for graduate students and advanced undergraduates and requires the undertaking of a research project. The topics of the research projects will be chosen with the help and guidance of the course staff. Other requirements include review and presentation of two research papers.

Coursework

Prerequisites

Grading

The final grade depends on class participation, presentation of two research papers, and a research project.

Readings

 There are a number of paper readings that are available online. You are expected to read the papers before the beginning of each class.

There is no required textbook for this class. The following textbooks, however, are recommended readings:

Syllabus

Date Notes Readings
Thu 3/10 Course overview Lecture notes
Thu 10/10 Coordination services 1 Lecture notes, Lamport: Paxos made simple
Fri 11/10 Coordination services 2 Lecture notes, Hunt: ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems
Thu 17/10 Coordination services 3 -
Fri 18/10 Scalable load balancing 1 Lecture slides, Elson: Handling flash crowds from your garage
Thu 24/10 Serving the social graph 1 Lecture slides, Bronson: Facebook's distributed data store for the social graph
Fri 25/10 Instructor out of town, no class -
Thu 31/10 Serving the social graph 2 Lecture slides
Fri 1/11 Microservices platforms Lecture slides, Kakivaya: Service Fabric: a distributed platform for building microservices in the cloud
Thu 7/11 Scalable causal consistency 1 Lecture notes, Lloyd: Don't Settle for Eventual Consistency
Fri 8/11 Scalable causal consistency 2 -
Thu 14/11 Presentations I 1320, 1339
Fri 15/11 Presentations I 1354, 1367
Thu 21/11 Presentations I 1368, 1393
Fri 22/11 No class -
Fri 22/11 Project proposals due -
Thu 28/11 Presentations I 1394, 4335, 4613
Fri 29/11 Tutorial on the use of AWS Academy (TA) -
Thu 5/12 Presentations II 1320, 1339
Fri 6/12 Presentations II 1354, 1367
Thu 12/12 Presentations II 1368, 1393
Fri 13/12 Presentations II 1394, 4335, 4613
Thu 19/12 Distributed transactions Lecture notes, Aguilera: Sinfonia: a new paradigm for buliding scalable distributed systems
Fri 20/12 Putting it all together -

Projects HOWTO

Please note the following project guidelines:

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