Is Go required for this course?

Cloud & InfrastructureAdvanced Level•60 Hours•4.88 Rating•2,210 Students Enrolled

Distributed Cloud Architecture, Consensus & Microservices

Master CAP theorem, Raft distributed consensus, event-driven architectures, sharding, and fault-tolerant cloud clusters.

18 In-Browser CodeLab Exercises8 Cloud Virtual LabsVerifiable Completion Credential

Course Overview

Learn how modern cloud infrastructures guarantee reliability and high availability. Build real replicated distributed state machines, explore partition tolerance, and design zero-downtime microservice architectures.

What You Will Learn

Implement the Raft consensus algorithm (leader election, log replication, safety invariants)

Design consistent hashing topologies for horizontally partitioned databases

Architect resilient event-driven pipelines with Apache Kafka / RabbitMQ

Apply circuit breakers, retry budgets, and distributed tracing across microservices

Curriculum & Modules

3 Modules • 9 Total Lessons

1.1 The 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing

video30 mins

1.2 Implementing Vector Clocks in Go

assignment45 mins

1.3 Simulating Network Partitions with Jepsen

lab50 mins

Practical Learning & Cloud Sandboxes

Deploy multi-node networked clusters in browser sandboxes and test network partition failures.

In-Browser CodeLab

18 automated exercises evaluated against real compilers and standard test matrices in seconds.

Cloud Virtual Labs

8 complete Linux containers launching isolated Docker runtimes, networking, and memory profiling.

Capstone Projects & Deliverables

Project Deliverable 1

Fault-Tolerant Replicated Key-Value Cluster

Build a distributed key-value store using the Raft consensus algorithm that survives random node crashes and network splits.

Required Deliverables:

Go / Java source code
Distributed chaos test suite
Architecture specification document

Assessments & Grading

Chaos engineering test harnesses verifying split-brain prevention and automatic leader failover.

6 Knowledge Check Quizzes12 Automated Unit Test Suites

Prerequisites & Requirements

Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python
Experience with networking concepts (TCP/IP, sockets)

Hardware requirements: Only a modern web browser with Internet access. All code execution runs in the cloud.

Instructor Profile

Marcus Vance

Cloud Infrastructure Director • Hyperscale Cloud Engineer

Over 15 years leading site reliability engineering and building high-availability distributed control planes for global cloud providers.

Course FAQs

Go is recommended and provided with the primary templates, but test harnesses also support Java and Python.

Enrollment Options

$199

Includes verified certificate & cloud compute

This course includes:

60 Hours on-demand video & reading
18 in-browser CodeLab exercises
8 full Linux cloud virtual labs
12 automated unit test suites
Cryptographic completion diploma

For Colleges & Universities

Available in Campus & Department Licenses

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