PDF slides: Big Data and Cloud Computing 101

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Practicum Instructions: Google Doc

The practicum will be performed on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This book on hardware architecture of clusters provides the reader a deeper technical understanding of cloud hardware and software.

• The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines

A light way into more material, specifically on Amazon Web Services, is this YouTube video given in 2011 at the STRATA conference by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels -- a VU PhD graduate!

Finally, after having attended the lecture, the technical architects among you might have a shot at the following Amazon promo presentation How to Scale Your Next Idea on AWS: a Love Story that highlights the function of many of their services for constructing resilient, scalable and secure web applications. We hope it will make more sense to you than before the lecture -- although in the lecture we do not really explain all the Amazon Services mentioned there.

• Cloud Computing according to Wikipedia
• Amazon Whitepaper: Architecting for the Cloud