CS304
Modern Web Application - 1
Faculty
Dmitry Lukashin
Software Engineer at Amazon
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Overview
The module provides a thorough overview of modern commercial web development approaches and techniques. During the course students will familiarize themselves with industry-recognized architecture patterns and tools for bootstrapping an application from scratch to bringing it to live production environment.
Learning highlights
- Understand architecture and core components of modern web frameworks.
- Learn about approaches to storing, querying, and publishing data.
- Learn about security threats and remediation techniques in modern web services.
- Learn how to prepare code and infrastructure for serving high traffic volumes.
Course outline
15 classes
Session 1
Introduction. Overview of a variety of modern Web applications. Cloud-native applications
Session 2
Refresher on frontend and web servers. HTTP request/response lifecycle and debugging tools. Encryption. CDN.
Session 3
Architecture of modern web framework. Routing, middleware, queues, background jobs, CLI. Distributed applications. Containerized applications.
Session 4
Relational databases. Data modelling, querying, and SQL. Tips and tricks on data modelling. Indexes and Transactions.
Session 5
Overview of Models, ORM, migrations, and data seeding.
Session 6
Handling errors in web frameworks
Session 7
Security threats in modern Web application
Session 8
Service-to-service and service-to-human communication. Protocols, data formats, and approaches.
Session 9
Files storage and processing
Session 10
Web services testing. Unit and integration tests
Session 11
Software design patterns. OOP, SOLID principles, basic patterns.
Session 12
Authentication and Authorization. Resources isolation and ownership. Permissions management
Session 13
Performance measurement of modern application. Estimating max throughput. Troubleshooting common bottlenecks
Session 14
Background jobs processing
Session 15
3 modes of running application: Web server, background jobs worker, CLI. Understanding request context.
Prerequisites
Understanding basics of HTML/CSS. Understanding basics of relational databases.
Methodology
Lectures, practical exercises, homework, individual projects
Grading
Dmitry is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Currently working in Amazon LATAM, he earlier worked as Software engineer in NVIDIA and led his startup for 8 years in TETRAWEB.
Dmitry focuses on design and development of distributed customer-facing solutions, passionate about e-commerce, cloud-native architecture, big data, performance, security, and all aspects of engineering and operational excellence.
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Modern Web Application - 1
by Dmitry Lukashin
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Nov 29 - Dec 17, 2021
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
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Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.