Cloud Computing Concepts, Part 1

Core ideas

This first part of the Cloud Computing Concepts series introduces the techniques, algorithms and design ideas shared by most cloud systems. The common thread is distributed computing, which the course treats as the foundation for both open-source platforms and in-house systems.

Topics in this part

Coverage includes clouds themselves, MapReduce, key-value and NoSQL stores, classical distributed algorithms, and the scalability questions that come with them. The course also points toward newer areas in the field.

Good for

• Beginners who want the concepts before the tooling.
• Developers who meet MapReduce or NoSQL stores at work and want the reasoning behind them.