Class Distributed Systems Programming

The Distributed Systems Programming course provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop high-quality distributed systems. This course covers advanced concepts of distributed programming, including architectures of distributed systems, interprocess communication, process synchronization, and distributed algorithms. The course also explores the performance and applications of distributed systems. By the end of the course, students will have the ability to create scalable and distributed solutions, an essential skill to acquire in the degree of computer sciences engineering.

Program Contents:

• Introduction to distributed systems
• Communication between processes
• Distributed system architectures
• Distributed programming models
• Process synchronization
• Distributed algorithms
• Data consistency and replication
• Fault tolerance in distributed systems
• Security in distributed systems
• Practical applications in distributed systems programming

Exposure to guest seminars from companies listed in PSI 20 where they address the practice of the subjects taught in a work environment.

• Tanenbaum, Andrew S. - Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2007. xix, 702 p. ISBN 978-0132392273
• Coulouris, George, et al. - Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design. 5th ed. Harlow, England: Pearson Education Limited, 2011. xxviii, 1014 p. ISBN 978-0132143011
• Lynch, Nancy - Distributed Algorithms. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA : Morgan Kaufmann, 1996. xvii, 824 p. ISBN 978-1558603486
• Kshemkalyani, Ajay, and Mukesh Singhal - Distributed Computing: Principles, Algorithms, and Systems. 1st ed. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxi, 750 p. ISBN 978-0521876346
• Birman, Kenneth P. - Reliable Distributed Systems: Technologies, Web Services, and Applications. 1st ed. New York, NY : Springer, 2005. xix, 556 p. ISBN 978-0387232640