System Issues in Cloud Computing

This course provides an introduction to data center networking technologies, specifically software-defined networking. It covers the history behind SDN, description of networks in data centers, Microsoft VL2 architecture, and traffic engineering.

Explore programming frameworks and their implementation issues in the Cloud, including scalable distributed data stores, resource management, and virtualization techniques. Optionally, implement a basic version of the distributed runtime system for the Map-Reduce programming framework.

Gain insights into developing and supporting cloud-native applications, best practices for migrating on-premise applications to the cloud, and the basic building blocks and properties expected from Cloud applications. The course also highlights novel cloud applications, including geo-distributed computations.

Covering Network Function Virtualization from a systems engineer's perspective, this course discusses the virtualization of middleboxes, optimizations in operating systems, design decisions for efficient packet processing, and challenges and solutions for building scalable systems for providing networking services in data centers.