unit-7.md

Unit 7: Software Delivery and Distribution

Prerequisites:

• Software Products and Services
• Technology Management, and the Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Learning Objectives

In this unit, we'll learn how to deliver software services to end users. We'll focus on two different kinds of software services, namely, web applications and background jobs.

Slides

Discussions and Notes

• Delivery and Distribution Models
• Remote Servers

Reference Documents

• The git Utility, with focus on Managing Remote Repositories and Addresses
• The heroku Utility

Activities and Exercises

• Managing and Refreshing your Fork of the Course Repository
• "Deploying a Background Service to Production" Exercise
• "Deploying a Web App to Production" Exercise