Scalable Web Systems

Course Description

The web has become a large and complex area for application development. Access to an abundance of open source languages, libraries, and frameworks has led to the quick and easy construction of a variety of applications with several moving parts working in coordination to present to the user the illusion of a single program. In reality, web applications are extremely difficult to get right. They involve a large collection of coordinated services, multiple databases, complicated user interfaces, security and performance issues, and ever changing 3rd party services, spread across physical and virtual machines. These complications are further stressed by the large number of concurrent users that access these applications every second. This course will investigate several well known web-based applications and the technology and software architecture used to scale these applications. We will also study a specific topic related to scalability in software design in the context of web application architecture.

Please see the Fall 2022 Syllabus (coming soon) for additional information and details.

Sections

• COMPSCI 497S-01 (45020): Tu/Th 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
  Lederle Grad Res Tower rm 123