Cloud Applications

This course provides an introduction to the development and support for Cloud-native applications, more specifically it delves into best practices of developing applications; migrating on premise applications to the cloud; the basic building blocks and properties expected from Cloud applications. The course also provide highlights of some novel cloud applications, including geo-distributed computations.

• Principles for Cloud Application Development
• A detailed description of the basic principles for developing scalable applications in the Cloud.
• Infrastructure and Application Management
• A detailed description of how Cloud application software is managed to deal with upgrades, resiliency, and evolution
• Emerging Cloud Applications
• A foray into the emerging landscape of novel Cloud applications
• Trending Cloud Infrastructure
• A look into the emerging landscape of Edge/Fog and multi-datacenter infrastructures
• Project
• A capstone workshop that ties together the learning outcomes