As you probably know (or not) last summer we organized a ’semantic web’ course at the Computer Science Faculty in Bucharest. We consider it a success story so we decided to take it to the next level. This means a full semester course. And this time we are not alone. We teamed up with two great companies: Adobe and Yahoo, to create one of the hippest courses in the world. We named it Poli 2.0.

What’s so new about this course? It is all about building a usable product. If during the other courses the students learn a lot of abstract notions and programming languages, here they will have to deal with building a real life product. A product that people (us, their colleagues ) will use on a daily basis.

Last week we had an introductory course and this week we started in force with a course on “Web apps architectures”. It was a rather detailed description on the way a web app works, why layers are important, what are the bottlenecks in a modern web app etc. Vladimir had the pleasure to present basic concepts while Mircea took the task to go deeper and explore different scaling solutions. Next week topic: API’s.

The slides:

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