Microservices and Docker - Learn to engineer distributed systems in the context of sustainable services and lightweight deployment- and runtime-environments.

• Review of the basics of distributed systems
• Design principles for distributed systems
• Middleware platforms for distributed systems
• Reviewing service-oriented architectures
• Special focus on sustainable service design using microservices
• Docker and Kubernetes as an environment for microservices

The practical assignment addresses a Vehicle2Infrastructure (V2I) communication use case in the area of autonomous driving.

The course starts on Tuesday, March 06, 2018 (16:15 - 17:45 on time).
Further lectures on 13.03., 20.03., 10.04., 24.04., 08.05., 29.05.
The exam will take place on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. A second exam date will be in October 2018.
For contacting the instructors of the course please use: jwr --AT-- infosys.tuwien.ac.at
For questions about the assignment, please use the TISS forum! 

The practical assignment will be published in TUWEL.
Lecture slides will be published in TISS.

Assignments and written exam. Overall 100 points can be achieved. In the assignments 60 points can be achieved and in the exam 40 can be achieved. To pass the course, a minimum of 50 points must be achieved from assignments plus exam. For assignments a minimum of 30 points is necessaryand for the exam a minimum of 20 points is necessary to pass the course.

Grading Scheme: 0-49 Points = 5, 50-62 Points = 4, 63-75 Points = 3, 75-87 Points = 2, 88-100 Points = 1

ECTS-Breakdown:

3 ECTS, that is ~ 75 working hours
50% Lecture, 50% Lab = 37.5h Lecture, 37.5h Lab

In detail:

Lecture: 
Lecture (presence in lecture, preparation and reflection): 20h
Written Exam (preparation and exam): 17.5h

Lab: 
Assignment: 35h
Assignment Interview: 2.5h

Lecture notes for this course are published as lecture slides in TISS.

Knowledge of distributed systems, software engineering, SQL, and object-oriented programming. Good programming skills in Java.