CS-E4770 - Designing and Building Scalable Web Applications D, Lecture, 24.10.2022-28.11.2022

Topic outline

• Select topic Designing and Building Scalable Web Applications

  Designing and Building Scalable Web Applications
  • Select activity Announcements

    

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  • Select activity ### Overview The course introduces learners to the...

    Overview

    The course introduces learners to the principles of building scalable web applications, focusing on recent advances in both client- and server-side development as well as on platforms and hosting solutions. Architectural patterns and their fit and need for different types of web applications are also considered.

    To succeed in the course, knowledge and skills from Web Software Development (CS-C3170) or equivalent are required.

    Remote lectures are organized between 24.10-28.11.

  • Select activity #### Tentative structure The tentative high-level ...

    Tentative structure

    The tentative high-level structure of the course is as follows:

    Week 1 (starting 24.10.)

    • "The big picture"
    • Defining scalability
    • Servers and clients
    • Web software development (rehearsal)
    • Measuring performance of web applications

    
    Week 2 (starting 31.10.)

    • HTTP rehearsal
    • Caching and Content-Delivery Networks
    • Getting started with client-side development

    
    Week 3 (starting 7.11.)

    • Rendering approaches: Server-side rendering, client-side rendering, hybrid approaches
    • Web application archetypes
    • Measuring performance continued
    • Client-side web applications continued

    
    Week 4 (starting 14.11.)

    • Brief peek at Jamstack
    • Scalability dimensions
    • Building APIs / API first
    • Real-time communication
    • Server-side architectural patterns

    
    Week 5 (starting 21.11.)

    • Server-side architectural patterns continued
    • Data and scalability
    • Brief look into Kubernetes
    • Load and stress testing

    
    Week 6 (starting 28.11.)

    • Scalability laws
    • Kubernetes continued
    • Scalability and the cloud
    • Serverless
    • Beyond software scalability

    
    

    Homework schedule

    • Given readings and creating questions from them, due Fridays (first deadline on 28th of October)
    • Answering questions from peers, due Sundays (first deadline on 30th of October)
    • Three projects:
      • First project deadline 6th of November, reviews due 9th of November
      • Second project deadline 27th of November, reviews due 30th of November
      • Third project deadline 11th of December, reviews due 14th of December

    
    Homework and projects returned on the course platform at https://fitech101.aalto.fi/designing-and-building-scalable-web-applications/.
    

    Grading etc

    See slides from lecture held on 24th of October.

  • Select activity ### Lecture slides

    Lecture slides

  • Select activity Slides for lecture 1 / 24.10.2022

    

    Slides for lecture 1 / 24.10.2022 File PDF
  • Select activity Slides for lecture 2 / 31.10.2022

    

    Slides for lecture 2 / 31.10.2022 File PDF
  • Select activity Slides for lecture 3 / 7.11.2022

    

    Slides for lecture 3 / 7.11.2022 File PDF

    Link to lecture recording: https://aalto.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8529c368-cada-4f85-b158-af4a008f4213

  • Select activity Slides for lecture 4 / 14.11.2022

    

    Slides for lecture 4 / 14.11.2022 File PDF

    Link to lecture recording: https://aalto.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fa36d117-6c58-49a4-932e-af4d01434c8b

  • Select activity Supplementary materials for lecture 4: Ping pong service

    

    Supplementary materials for lecture 4: Ping pong service File ZIP

    The project includes a ping pong application with Astro frontend and two services. One of the services acts as a websocket server that sends information to the frontend on demand, while the other is an API that can be pinged. In the application, the service that is pinged also sends a notification to the websocket server.

  • Select activity Slides for lecture 5 / 21.11.2022

    

    Slides for lecture 5 / 21.11.2022 File PDF

    Link to lecture recording: https://aalto.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=df6d842a-ddec-4505-9126-af54014a9bd7

  • Select activity Slides for lecture 6 / 28.11.2022

    

    Slides for lecture 6 / 28.11.2022 File PDF

    Link to lecture recording: https://aalto.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7bcda039-8502-4159-a3eb-af5b015045f7

  • Select activity Supplementary materials: Kubernetes configuration example with nginx-ingress and two services.

    

    Supplementary materials: Kubernetes configuration example with nginx-ingress and two services. File ZIP
  • Select activity Supplementary materials: Kubernetes configuration example with an API that uses a database, a database, and Flyway for database migrations

    

    Supplementary materials: Kubernetes configuration example with an API that uses a database, a database, and Flyway for database migrations File ZIP
  • Select activity ### Linked readings

    Linked readings

  • Select activity Week 2 Readings / The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications

    

    Week 2 Readings / The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications File PDF
  • Select activity Week 3 Readings / Motivations, benefits, and issues for adopting Micro-Frontends: A Multivocal Literature Review

    

    Week 3 Readings / Motivations, benefits, and issues for adopting Micro-Frontends: A Multivocal Literature Review File PDF
  • Select activity Week 4 Readings Part 1 / The Many Faces of Publish/Subscribe

    

    Week 4 Readings Part 1 / The Many Faces of Publish/Subscribe File PDF
  • Select activity Week 4 Readings Part 2 / Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing

    

    Week 4 Readings Part 2 / Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing File PDF
  • Select activity Week 5 Readings / Data management in cloud environments: NoSQL and NewSQL data stores

    

    Week 5 Readings / Data management in cloud environments: NoSQL and NewSQL data stores File PDF
  • Select activity Week 6 Readings / What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing

    

    Week 6 Readings / What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing File PDF