Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Understand the distinctive characteristics of architectures and software development of distributed systems, their potential and challenges;
2. Know how to use different cloud computing offerings, namely storage and processing services, taking into account non-functional aspects related to availability, replication and scalability;
3. Use different communication and interaction patterns, understanding their reliability and performance characteristics;
4. Understand the need to coordinate and synchronize decision making in distributed environments.

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