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
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