Scalable Information Systems credit:

4 Hours

Focuses on large-scale information systems and analyzes the design and development principles and infrastructures that make them scalable and reliable. Topics include issues in scalability and availability, distributed system design, virtualization, scalability testing, and popular frameworks and platforms, such as Hadoop/MapReduce, Apache Spark, Amazon Web Services. Real-world, large-scale information systems, such as those developed by Google, Amazon, and Facebook, etc., are discussed and analyzed as use cases.