Programming Distributed Systems

Team

Lecturer: Dr. Annette Bieniusa

Assistant: Albert Schimpf

The lecture and course material will be in English.

Registration

Please register for the course via OLAT

Prerequisites

• Good programming knowledge, including usage of code repositories (git)

As this is a 8CP lecture, you will spend on average around 240 hours on the lecture and the exercises, including exam preparation. If you do not have much experience with programming systems of medium size, you need to plan to spend more time on the practical exercises! If you lack some of the theoretical prerequisites (definition of formal languages, finite-state machines), you should also incorporate this into your planning.

Exam

To be decided.

Objectives

You will be able to

• explain the challenges regarding time and faults in a distributed system
• provide formal definitions for time models, fault models and consistency models
• comprehend and develop models of some distributed system in a process calculus
• describe the algorithms for essential abstractions in programming distributed systems
• implement basic abstractions for distributed programming
• explain the virtues and limitations of major distributed programming paradigms