Logical / physical arhitecture design and server components, performance measurement, advanced caching strategies, horizontal scaling with MySQL and handling peak load.

Course Objectives

The goal of this course is to dive into advanced software development, architecture design topics for Internet projects. At the end of the term, expected outcome is to establish the basis of a background with which students can design and implement sites that can scale up to thousands of concurrent users.

Recommended or Required Reading

http://www.infoq.com/ ,http://aws.amazon.com/ ,http://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter ,Cal Henderson, Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications, O Reilly Media, 2006 ,John Allspaw, The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources, O Reilly Media, 2008 ,Theo Schlossnagle, Scalable Internet Architectures, Sams, 2006 ,Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher, The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise, Addison-Wesly, 2009 ,http://highscalability.com/ ,http://www.ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/put-io-nun-altyapisi-ve-olceklenebilirligi-uzerine-roportaj/

Learning Outcomes

1. To be able implement sites that can scale up to thousands of concurrent users.

2. To develop a project on Play Framework.

3. To be able implement various cache mechanisms

4. To be able to perform horizontal scaling with MySQL and handling peak load

Grading

Midterm 15%

Research Presentation 60%

Final 25%