Single-Course Dansk 10 ECTS

Full Stack Development, Operations and Distributed Systems

Overall Course Objectives

The purpose of the course is to train the participants in developing web applications using some modern front-end technologies and to design, build, deploy and operate a modern backend for an app or website.
To understand of theory and good practice in the construction of distributed systems.

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Learning Objectives

  • Explain the principles and architecture of web applications (front- and back-end)
  • Develop full-stack applications of a certain complexity
  • Document, implement, deploy and monitor a distributed system
  • Organize code according to the chosen architecture
  • Explain the principles of reactive programming
  • Use resource oriented protocols (such as REST) as client and server
  • Understand transactions and transaction isolation in a distributed system
  • Understand security aspects in a distributed system
  • Select and configure a suitable deployment platform and deploy a backend
  • Distinguise between different container-based virtualization technologies, such as Docker, and modern server management
  • Assess the sustainability when choosing deployment platform backend

Course Content

Architectures and design of modern backends as part of a distributed systems, such as client-server, Service oriented architectures (SOA), and web services, such as JSON, REST and GraphQL.
Development of modern front- and back-end services.
Richardson’s maturity model for a REST service.
Architectures in web application development (HTML, Javascript, serverside and client side languages and their interaction)
Best practices in modern backend development.
Managing concurrency issues in a backend.

The course is project-oriented and includes development of a distributed system of your choice, typically a front- and back-end and communicatiing with a web page and/or an app.

Recommended prerequisites

02312/02314/62532/62531/02327/02362/02369/62443, Knowledge of Java, object-oriented programming and basic understanding of multithreaded programming.
Knowledge of network protocols, including TCP/IP and HTTP.
The course 62443 can be followed in parallel with 62595.

Teaching Method

Lectures and excercises and mandatory project work.
Development of a backend of own choic

Faculty

Remarks

Section of AI, Mathematics and Software
Diplomingeniørretning IT og Økonomi

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Registration

Language

Dansk

Duration

13 weeks

Institute

Engineering Technology

Place

DTU Ballerup Campus

Course code 62595
Course type Graduate Engineer
Price

18.500,00 DKK

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