Robust and scalable services

• Service architecturesAutomation with platform-independent languages
• Databases and applications
• Accessibility: theory and practice
• Upgrading and maintenance of high-availability infrastructures
• Data storage and distributed databases
• Statistics applications in system administration
• Backup and restore active data
• Performance measurements and analysis
• Monitoring and capacity calculation in dynamic infrastructures

Knowledge:

• K1: The candidate has good knowledge of different service architectures and their application.
• K2: The candidate has a good knowledge related to the performance and scalability of architectures.
• K3: The candidate has good knowledge of how to achieve high availability and security.

Skills:

• F1: The candidate can set up and maintain databases and web-based applications.
• F2: The candidate can set up and maintain high availability mechanisms (load balancing and database replication).
• F3: The candidate can perform performance tests of storage, databases and web servers and apply statistical analyzes to the data.
• F4: The candidate can perform caching in different parts of a service architecture to achieve higher performance.
• F5: The candidate can design and implement a backup system in a dynamic infrastructure as well as carry out recovery.

General competence:

• G1: The candidate has good knowledge of various approaches and the culture in the field of system administration.
• G2: The candidate has good insight into troubleshooting various infrastructure environments.

Lectures, problem solving individually and in groups, lab exercises, online-supported learning.