Online course on building cloud based applications at IIT-K

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Updated on Dec 13, 2012 03:58 IST

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) will be offering an online course on Building Cloud Based Applications from Dec 1 - Jan 30, 2012. Christened as "Architecting Software for the Cloud", the course will be open to students and professionals from all across the world and will comprise the following:

A set of short topic oriented lecture videos in the form of learning objects
Assessment components in the form of quizzes
Opportunities to discuss online with fellow students
Notes and reading material

The institute will be providing lecture notes and pointers to suggested online readings and reference books. The course content (i.e. lecture videos, pointers to reading material and discussion forums etc.) will be available to students via the class website. A registered student will be able to access all the course content anytime.

Students need to have a computer with Internet connection, and the browser should be able to play Adobe Flash videos

Students by the end of the program will be able to:

Have a clear understanding of cloud variants and their characteristics. Students will know how to leverage cloud characteristics to address different application design issues
Provision and manage virtual hardware infrastructure on a cloud
Have clear understanding of different types of virtualization technologies. Students will know pros and cons of different virtualization platforms in context of various application scenarios.
Create and manage virtual machines using different virtualization tools.
Understand cloud-oriented design paradigms and tools such as MapReduce and NoSQL

Course details:

Course commencement: Dec 1, 2012
Duration: 6 weeks and about 2 hours/week
Contact: arch4cloud@gmail.com

Eligible candidates:

Senior undergraduate/postgraduate student in a computer science program
A practitioner with a couple of years of industry experience
Applicants must have a reasonable amount of basic computer science knowledge
Basic working knowledge of operating systems, networks, database systems and software engineering to gain the best out of this course.

Topics to be covered under the program:

Software architecture primer

Quality attributes (QA)
Architecture tactics
Documenting architectures

Cloud computing internals

Service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS etc.)
Deployment models (Private, Public, Hybrid etc.)
Characteristics of each model variant
Virtualization (v12n) and cloud

Architecting for cloud

Impact of cloud characteristics on QAs
Harnessing cloud services - Storage, queues and computer etc.

Students who successfully complete the course would be awarded with a certificate of accomplishment by the Continuing Education Program of IIT Kanpur.