PA200 Cloud Computing

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
RNDr. David Gešvindr, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. David Gešvindr, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. David Gešvindr, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PA165 Java Enterprise Applications || PV179 System Development in C#/.NET || PV260 Software Quality
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 115/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 105/40
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to both theoretical and practical aspects of software architecture design of PaaS cloud applications and develop critical thinking that will allow them to estimate impacts of architectural decisions on the overall quality of the designed application early during the development lifecycle. Students will also gain experience with implementing cloud applications using existing cloud services offered by multiple public cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services) and automating testing, deployment, and monitoring of cloud applications.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will:
- understand different aspects of software quality relevant to the cloud (quality attributes related to performance, scalability, availability, and costs);
- be familiar with design patterns and software architectures (e.g., microservices, serverless) applicable for the design of PaaS cloud applications;
- be able to design and implement cloud applications that fulfill both functional and non-functional requirements;
- have practical experience with implementation and deployment of PaaS cloud application using various public cloud services
Syllabus
  • 1. Overview of cloud computing and cloud service delivery models
  • 2. Challenges of cloud application design and related quality concerns
  • 3. Cloud design patterns
  • 4. Microservices in the cloud
  • 5. Serverless applications
  • 6. Compute services
  • 7. Storage services
  • 8. Integration/communication services
  • 9. Monitoring, benchmarking, and troubleshooting cloud applications
  • 10. Building cloud CI/CD pipeline
  • 11. Security and Identity Management in the cloud
  • 12. Data Analytics and AI in the cloud
  • 13. IoT solutions in the cloud
Teaching methods
Lectures with slides and discussion (presentations by professionals in the field), homework assignments, consultations about homework assignments
Assessment methods
Students will be assigned practical assignments within the lectures. The goal of the assignments will be to let the students gain experience with design, development and deployment of cloud applications.
Additionally, there will be a written test at the end, testing the knowledge gained by the students during the semester.
To pass the course, the students must reach at least 70 points out of 100 (50 for homework assignments, 35 for the final written test, 15 points for activity in lectures).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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