BLNF0000 Natural Sciences Course description

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

Three online questionaires addressing their progress and reflections. Each questionnaire should take between 10 and 15 minutes to complete.

The students will work individually to complete three tasks of which two are of a technical nature and one an essay. The results are documented in a portfolio as two technical reports and one essay. The total amount of text should be about 60 +/- 10 pages, not including appendix with scripts etc.

The portfolio will be graded as a whole, with the following guideline for the relative weight of the different documents:

• Technical report 1: 40%
• Technical report 2: 40%
• Essay: 20%

All exams must be passed in order to pass the course.

• Utforskende arbeidsmetoder
• eksperimentell lek - luft og vann
• økologi, med vekt på skogen som økosystem

All aids are permitted.

For the final assessment a grading scale from A to E is used, where A denotes the highest and E the lowest pass grade, and F denotes a fail.

Two internal examiners. External examiner is used periodically. The exam grade can be appealed.

The beginning of the course will focus of familiarizing oneself with the technologies used in building and delivering high-volume services. This will include containers and similar technologies, load balancing, automated testing and revision control systems. The students will put these technologies to the test in exercises in our lab environment. Towards the middle of the course, we will start to cover more of the organizational aspects of a lean and agile software delivery pipeline and how the technologies from the beginning of the course fit in.

During this phase, case studies will be used. The last phase of the course will cover advanced topics, such as site-reliability engineering and service discovery.

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