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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 3Serverless Computing
- 2Cloud Computing
- 2Machine Learning
- 2Microservices
- 1Autoscaling
- 1Distributed Systems
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Fall 2021
With the advent of cloud computing, many organizations are moving their software systems to cloud environments. This migration from on-premises to cloud infrastructure has led to the emergence of cloud applications. One of the essential concepts around cloud applications and cloud services is...
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Spring 2022
During the past 10 years, we have witnessed the proliferation of cloud computing services and their adoption in the industry. This rapid growth has been mainly due to economies of scale, improving resource utilization, infinite computing resources on demand, and pay per use cost model. However,...
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Fall 2021
Microservices have gained substantial importance over the past decades and matured into one of the fundamental techniques to build performant, cloud-native, and cost-efficient distributed systems that are scalable and highly available. However, like any other type of distributed system, there are...