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Distributed Systems: Building Software for the Real World
Explore architecting, designing, and building resilient distributed systems for real-world challenges. Gain insights into creating stability, designing for production, delivering systems, and solving systemic issues.
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189 Lessons
12h
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand system architecture and information architecture
- Learn about development lifecycle and different architectures to build a software
- Learn about stability anti-patterns, problems in network connection and their vulnerabilities
- Learn service discovery systems, control plane, bounded/unbounded result sets and their effects
Learning Roadmap
1.
Living in Production
Living in Production
Step through readiness for production, holistic design, and pragmatic architecture in software.
2.
The Exception That Grounded an Airline
The Exception That Grounded an Airline
Solve challenges with a case study on resolving airline system outages and preventing failures.
3.
Stabilize Your System
Stabilize Your System
7 Lessons
7 Lessons
Break apart strategies to maintain stability, prevent failures, and ensure system longevity.
4.
Stability Antipatterns
Stability Antipatterns
13 Lessons
13 Lessons
Break down complex ideas on stability antipatterns in distributed systems and mitigation strategies.
5.
Failures And Blockages
Failures And Blockages
19 Lessons
19 Lessons
Take a closer look at handling failures and blockages in distributed systems to ensure resilience.
6.
Force Multiplier
Force Multiplier
6 Lessons
6 Lessons
Investigate safeguards and strategies to prevent failures in automated distributed systems.
7.
Stability Patterns
Stability Patterns
17 Lessons
17 Lessons
Master the steps to ensuring system stability through timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and effective resource management.
8.
Launching An Online Store
Launching An Online Store
8 Lessons
8 Lessons
Address challenges of online store launch, load testing, traffic management, and server diagnostics during peak retail events.
9.
Foundations
Foundations
9 Lessons
9 Lessons
Walk through the fundamentals of distributed systems, including virtualization, containers, and cloud environments.
10.
Processes on Machines
Processes on Machines
9 Lessons
9 Lessons
Examine the essentials of deploying, managing, and monitoring distributed system processes on machines.
11.
Interconnect
Interconnect
12 Lessons
12 Lessons
Grasp the fundamentals of interconnect layers, DNS, load balancing, demand control, and service discovery.
12.
Control Plane
Control Plane
14 Lessons
14 Lessons
Take a closer look at the control plane's role in managing and automating distributed systems.
13.
Security
Security
11 Lessons
11 Lessons
Implement measures to enhance security in distributed systems, mitigating breaches and vulnerabilities effectively.
14.
Design for Deployment
Design for Deployment
10 Lessons
10 Lessons
Master deployment strategies, minimize downtime, ensure system stability, and enhance user experience.
15.
Handling Versions
Handling Versions
5 Lessons
5 Lessons
Try out strategies for handling versions and maintaining API compatibility in distributed systems.
16.
Case Study: Trampled by Your Own Customers
Case Study: Trampled by Your Own Customers
6 Lessons
6 Lessons
Walk through the challenges and resolutions in launching and stabilizing a new online system.
17.
Adaptation
Adaptation
8 Lessons
8 Lessons
Work your way through adapting software for changes, efficient processes, effective teams, and service autonomy.
18.
System Architecture
System Architecture
7 Lessons
7 Lessons
Grasp the fundamentals of resilient, adaptable system architecture principles and modularity.
19.
Information Architecture
Information Architecture
6 Lessons
6 Lessons
Deepen your knowledge of flexible information architecture, focusing on databases, events, services, URLs, and data plurality.
20.
Chaos Engineering
Chaos Engineering
8 Lessons
8 Lessons
Follow the process of using chaos engineering to enhance resilience in distributed systems.
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
In this course, you will examine ways to architect, design, and build software —particularly distributed systems—for the muck and mire of the real world. You will prepare for the armies of illogical users who do crazy, unpredictable things. Your software will be under attack from the moment you release it. It needs to stand up to the typhoon winds of flash mobs or the crushing pressure of a DDoS attack by poorly secured IoT toaster ovens. You’ll take a hard look at software that failed the test and find ways to make sure your software survives contact with the real world. The course is divided into four parts, each introduced by a case study.
In Part I: Create Stability you’ll see how to keep your systems alive, maintaining system uptime.
In Part II: Design for Production, you’ll see what it means to live in production.
In Part III: Deliver Your System, you’ll look at deployments.
In Part IV: Solve Systemic Problems, you’ll examine the system’s ongoing life as part of the overall information ecosystem.
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