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About the Course

This course teaches learners (industry professionals and students) the fundamental concepts of Distributed Programming in the context of Java 8. Distributed programming enables developers to use multiple nodes in a data center to increase throughput and/or reduce latency of selected applications. By the end of this course, you will learn how to use popular distributed programming frameworks for Java programs, including Hadoop, Spark, Sockets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Multicast Sockets, Kafka, Message Passing Interface (MPI), as well as different approaches to combine distribution with multithreading. Why take this course? • All data center servers are organized as collections of distributed servers, and it is important for you to also learn how to use multiple servers for increased bandwidth and reduced latency. • In addition to learning specific frameworks for distributed programming, this course will teach you how to integrate multicore and distributed parallelism in a unified approach. • Each of the four modules in the course includes an assigned mini-project that will provide you with the necessary hands-on experience to use the concepts learned in the course on your own, after the course ends. • During the course, you will have online access to the instructor and the mentors to get individualized answers to your questions posted on forums. The desired learning outcomes of this course are as follows: • Distributed map-reduce programming in Java using the Hadoop and Spark frameworks • Client-server programming using Java's Socket and Remote Method Invocation (RMI) interfaces • Message-passing programming in Java using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) • Approaches to combine distribution with multithreading, including processes and threads, distributed actors, and reactive programming Mastery of these concepts will enable you to immediately apply them in the context of distributed Java programs, and will also provide the foundation for mastering other distributed programming frameworks that you may encounter in the future (e.g., in Scala or C++)....

Top reviews

MP

Oct 4, 2019

It was awsome, I could learn a lot, thks Professor

NK

Sep 4, 2017

It forced me to recall OpenMP and MPI. Thought it's already dead in favor to IMDG, spark, upc and so on.Practical tasks - miniprojects - was too easy to implement. Need more complex tasks.

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By Emilian S

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Oct 4, 2020

Very helpful and interesting course. Keep up the good work!

By Prathamesh B

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Nov 28, 2020

Brilliant course. Prof Sarkar is wonderful as always.

By Amr H G

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Nov 25, 2019

Amazing course to learn about distributed Progrmaming

By Marcos P

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Oct 5, 2019

It was awsome, I could learn a lot, thks Professor

By N S

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Jun 30, 2025

I enjoyed taking this course and learned a lot!

By Napoleon A

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May 15, 2022

Excellent for handling threads and concurrency

By Ian M

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Oct 4, 2020

Avery good course to take on coursera

By Stephen A T

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Nov 20, 2020

learning-friendly and oriented

By Qiuxiang D

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Sep 13, 2017

This is a great course for me.

By Ana E R G

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May 9, 2020

El instructor muy profesional

By Nitesh J 1

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Apr 27, 2021

This course is very helpful.

By John O O

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Aug 14, 2019

Awesome material! :-D

By Gopika M

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Apr 10, 2020

Had a great learning

By Hugo J

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May 21, 2019

Great professor !

By updatinglb

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Feb 28, 2019

concise and clear

By Carlos J G R

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Apr 19, 2021

Excelente curso

By Ganapathi N K

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Feb 26, 2019

Good experience

By pandeyShubham

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Apr 29, 2020

hard but good

By Apekshit K

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Jul 31, 2020

great course

By Deleted A

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May 1, 2020

Thanks a lot

By Light0617

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Nov 18, 2018

very great!

By vaibhav j

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Sep 27, 2017

Excellent

By Rubimalya

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Apr 10, 2020

good !

By Partha B

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Mar 11, 2019

thanks

By DaeMyung K

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Mar 12, 2018

Thanks