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ECE 568

Engineering Robust Server Software

Brian Rogers

Description from DukeHub

In this course, students learn about important principles in server software design and development. These principles include topics such as handling asynchronous behavior, design for failure, basic security principles, scalability, and resilience. Students will put these ideas into practices by developing software reflecting the ideas learned in class. Prerequisite: [(ECE 551D or ECE 751D) and corequisite ECE 650], or [(COMPSCI 307D or COMPSCI 308 or ECE 351) and (ECE 353 or COMPSCI 310) and (ECE 356 or COMPSCI 356)].

Skills

AI-resilient: 0 of 5

  • No: Physical, lab or field work
  • No: Live work with people
  • No: Judgment someone is accountable for
  • No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
  • No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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