Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications

Teacher

Yoda

Welcome to the ‘Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications’ video series

Learn how to architect distributed cloud apps with the right developer mindset, the finest cloud technologies, and the best cloud patterns.

This technology-agnostic video course begins by explaining the benefits of distributed cloud applications with an emphasis on maintaining high-availability and scalability in a cost-effective way while also dealing with inevitable hardware and software failures.

Then, the course moves on to:

Microservices and containers
Networking communication
Messaging communication
Versioning, upgrading and configuration
Data storage services
Disaster recovery

This course is for anyone considering or actively working on a distributes cloud application. It is designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of these concepts, the various pros and cons of specific technologies, and the resilient patterns that are heavily used by distributed cloud applications. This knowledge will help you to easily build cost-efficient and fault-tolerant systems.

You can download slides and reuse them from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Oe…. If you use the slides, please point people to the original video series at http://aka.ms/RichterCloudApps.

Course Features

Lectures 52
Quizzes 0
Duration 50 hours
Skill level Level 300
Language English
Students 45
Certificate No
Assessments Yes

Introduction 1
- Lecture1.1
  
  Welcome to the ‘Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications’ video series 03 min
Distributed Cloud Apps 14
- Lecture2.1
  
  Why Cloud Apps? 13 min
- Lecture2.2
  
  Fundamentals-Embracing Failure 09 min
- Lecture2.3
  
  Fundamentals-Orchestrators (?aaS) and Clusters 09 min
- Lecture2.4
  
  Fundamentals-Regions, availability zones, and fault domains 07 min
- Lecture2.5
  
  Microservices-Applications consist of many (micro)services 04 min
- Lecture2.6
  
  Microservices-Reasons to split a monolithic app into microservices 15 min
- Lecture2.7
  
  Microservices-Composing SLAs for dependent services 05 min
- Lecture2.8
  
  Microservices-Auto-Scaling a Service’s Instances 07 min
- Lecture2.9
  
  Microservices-12-Factor Services (Apps) 12 min
- Lecture2.10
  
  Containers-Container images & containers 06 min
- Lecture2.11
  
  Containers-Isolation versus Density 07 min
- Lecture2.12
  
  Containers-OS kernel & container images 03 min
- Lecture2.13
  
  Containers-Orchestrator starts containers on cluster’s PCs/VMs 06 min
- Lecture2.14
  
  Containers-Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment 06 min
Networking 9
- Lecture3.1
  
  Fundamentals-Fallacies of distributed computing 09 min
- Lecture3.2
  
  Fundamentals-Service endpoints, scalability & availability 09 min
- Lecture3.3
  
  Fundamentals-Cluster DNS & service reverse proxy 07 min
- Lecture3.4
  
  Fundamentals-Reverse proxy load balancer service probes 05 min
- Lecture3.5
  
  Service APIs-Turning a monolith into a microservice 13 min
- Lecture3.6
  
  Service APIs-API versioning 04 min
- Lecture3.7
  
  Service APIs-Defining Network API Contracts 07 min
- Lecture3.8
  
  Service APIs-Beware leaky RPC-like abstractions 05 min
- Lecture3.9
  
  Fault Tolerance-Exactly once semantics via retries & idempotency 16 min
Messaging 4
- Lecture4.1
  
  Fundamentals-The benefits of messaging communication 05 min
- Lecture4.2
  
  Fundamentals-Messaging with queues 10 min
- Lecture4.3
  
  Fundamentals-Fault Tolerant message processing 10 min
- Lecture4.4
  
  Fundamentals-Additional queue features 08 min
Service upgrade & Config 4
- Lecture5.1
  
  Versioning code-Service update options 14 min
- Lecture5.2
  
  Versioning code-Rolling update: how to version APIs 04 min
- Lecture5.3
  
  Shutdown & reconfigure-Gracefully shutting down a service instance 06 min
- Lecture5.4
  
  Shutdown & reconfigure-Cryptographic Message Syntax 10 min
Leader Election 3
- Lecture6.1
  
  Fundamentals-What is leader election? 04 min
- Lecture6.2
  
  Fundamentals-Leader election via a lease 07 min
- Lecture6.3
  
  Fundamentals-Leader election via a queue message 03 min
Data Storage 17
- Lecture7.1
  
  Fundamentals-Data storage service considerations 04 min
- Lecture7.2
  
  Fundamentals-Data temperature 06 min
- Lecture7.3
  
  Fundamentals-Using a cache to improve performance 04 min
- Lecture7.4
  
  Object (blob) storage services-Object (blob) storage services & using a CDN 10 min
- Lecture7.5
  
  Database storage services-Relational & Non-relational database storage services 12 min
- Lecture7.6
  
  Database storage services-Data partitioning and replicas 15 min
- Lecture7.7
  
  Data Consistency-Data Consistency 18 min
- Lecture7.8
  
  Data Consistency-CQRS 05 min
- Lecture7.9
  
  Data Consistency-Event sourcing 07 min
- Lecture7.10
  
  Data Consistency-Implementing eventual consistency 05 min
- Lecture7.11
  
  Data Consistency-The Saga Pattern 08 min
- Lecture7.12
  
  Data Consistency-Concurrency control 05 min
- Lecture7.13
  
  Data Consistency-Optimistic Concurrency 06 min
- Lecture7.14
  
  Versioning Schemas-Versioning Data schemas 08 min
- Lecture7.15
  
  Backup & Disaster Recovery-Backup & restore 06 min
- Lecture7.16
  
  Backup & Disaster Recovery-Recovery point & time objectives (RPO & RTO) 03 min
- Lecture7.17
  
  Backup & Disaster Recovery-Disaster recovery 10 min

Yoda

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