Students should understand what the course is about and what is expected from them.

• Introduce students to the course format
• Introduce students to Cyberinfrastructure, Airavata, Applied Distributed Systems
• Introduce students to project Themes

Students should further understand the expectations from course and project action plan.

• Discuss expected time commitments.
• Introduce Cloud Native and Microservice Concepts.
• Distributed overview from Shameera Rathnayaka, Google.

Project 1 Overview

• Project 1 Overview

UX and User Centric Design

• UX Overview
• NASA IMPACT introduction

Git Overview.

• Git Branching Styles
• Open Source Project Governance

Binary data serialization frameworks

• Protocol Buffers Data Serialization
• gRPC and Thrift Binary RPC Frameworks

Continous Integration and Deployment

• Software Engineering Best Practices
• CI/CD overview

Messaging and Microservices

• Microservices messaging
• Rabbit-MQ concept overview

Students should understand basic concepts of log centric architectures, fault tolerance, and scaling out messaging throughput by examining Apache Kafka as a case study.

• Characteristics of cloud native systems: fault tolerance and configurable scalability
• Basic concepts of log-centric architecture
• Apache Kafka case study

Containers Introduction

• Project 1 Reflections
• Containers

Container Orchestration

• Cluster Management Frameworks
• Kubernetes

Control Plane Technologies

• Cloud Native defination
• Zookeeper
• etcd, Consul
Zookeeper Slides Lecture 12 Recording

Service Mesh

• Service Mesh
• Orchestration Frameworks

Infrastructure as Code

• Automating Deployments
• Ansible
• Rancher for Kubernetes

Students should understand the basics of the Raft consensus protocol

• Raft basics
• Leader election

Jetstream Overview

• Jetstream Cloud Introduction
• Goals for CI/CD

Raft, Continued

• Consensus
• Leader election

Project 3 Overview

• Architecture evolution from project 1, 2 to 3.
• Goals for CI/CD

Advanced Raft Topics

• Changing cluster members
• Log snap shotting
• Byzantine fault tolerance and security

The SWIM Protocol

• Scalable group membership
• Scalable fault detection

OAuth2 and OIDC

• Science gateway security requirements
• Authorization with OAuth2
• Authentication with OIDC

Testing Microservices, Part 1

• Inverting the testing pyramid
• Using risks to guide holistic testing approaches
• Clean architectures and clear testing

Testing Microservices, Part 2

• Risk-based testing
• Designing and conducting performance tests

Blockchain for Scalable Log Management

• Security basics for blockchain
• Emergent properties of blockchains

Course Wrap up

• Reflection of the projects
• Recap of the concepts
• Suggestions on how to apply the learnings