Course Outline
Introduction to Distributed Systems for Government
- Definition of a distributed system
- Common challenges: latency, consistency, and availability
- Overview of system components and communication models
Scalability Principles for Government
- Vertical versus horizontal scaling
- Load balancing and elasticity
- Scaling storage, compute, and I/O resources
Architectural Patterns for Government
- Client-server and multi-tier architectures
- Service-oriented and microservice architectures
- Event-driven architecture and message queues
CAP Theorem and Consistency Models for Government
- Explanation of the CAP theorem
- Strong versus eventual consistency
- Choosing between consistency and availability in government systems
Data Distribution and Storage Strategies for Government
- Partitioning and sharding techniques
- Replication strategies and quorum reads/writes
- Distributed databases and key-value stores
Communication and Coordination in Distributed Systems for Government
- REST, gRPC, and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Leader election and distributed consensus mechanisms
- Using Zookeeper or etcd for coordination in government systems
Fault Tolerance and Reliability for Government
- Designing for failure and graceful degradation in public sector systems
- Retry mechanisms, timeouts, and circuit breakers
- Monitoring, observability, and chaos engineering practices for government
Cloud-Native and Modern Implementation Practices for Government
- Containers, orchestration, and Kubernetes for government use cases
- Statelessness and immutability in government systems
- Best practices for distributed system security in the public sector
Summary and Next Steps for Government
Requirements
- An understanding of fundamental networking and system design principles for government
- Experience with general software development practices
- Familiarity with cloud computing and API design is beneficial
Audience
- Software architects and technical leads in the public sector
- Backend engineers and DevOps professionals for government
- System designers developing scalable cloud applications for government use
Testimonials (5)
Maybe more exercises could be better for lerning but the time was to little
Gianpiero Arico' - Urmet Spa
Course - Embedded Linux Systems Architecture
Practise exercises in EA.
Pawel - Krajowa Szkola Skarbowosci
Course - UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops)
-Knowledge of the teacher in the subject was really good. He was able to explain very nicely and was able to answer all the questions at that moment. -To be able to know what all the tool is capable of was really good. -The structure he showed, like using scenarios and traceability would be really helpful in my day-to-day work.
Harsha Jain - Scania CV AB
Course - Introduction to Enterprise Architect
Great knowledge.
Marie - Forsvarets forkningsinstitutt
Course - Systems Modeling with SysML and Enterprise Architect (EA)
The theory felt quite complete, we handled all important subjects. It was very nice we could zoom in on our use-case Achievements, which helped us with understanding the theory.