The course schedule is tentative and subject to change. You can find our reading list here.
| Date | Topic | Required reading/assignment | Optional reading |
| Jan 22 |
Lec 1: Introduction [slides], Go systems programming [slides] [slides+notes] |
[syntax] [go_systems_programming] [precept1 solutions] Lab 0 out |
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| Jan 29 | Lec 2: Remote procedure call, RPCs in Go [slides] [slides+notes] |
[wc client+server] Lab 0 due midnight Friday 01/31 Lab 1 out |
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| Feb 5 | Lec 3: MapReduce, concurrency in Go [slides] [slides+notes] | MapReduce | Google File System Fun read: The friendship that made Google huge |
| Feb 12 | Lec 4: Time & clocks, primary-backup [pdf] [pptx] [pdf+notes] |
Lab 1 due midnight Friday 02/14 Lab 2 out |
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| Feb 19 |
Lec 5: Distributed consensus [slides]
[slides+notes], Paxos [slides] [slides+notes], Raft [slides] |
Paxos made simple, Raft |
Paxos made live, Chubby, Zookeeper |
| Feb 26 |
Traveling to FAST (NO CLASS) Midterm review [slides] ...and also, Hack Day! |
Project ideas released: Pick your project |
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| Mar 4 | Midterm exam | Lab 2 due midnight Wednesday 03/04 | |
| Mar 11 | Spring Recess (NO CLASS) | ||
| Mar 18 | Extended Spring Recess (NO CLASS) | ||
| Mar 25 |
Lec 6: Raft [slides]
[slides+notes], Spark [pdf] [pptx] [pdf+notes] |
Spark | RAMCloud, Dryad |
| Apr 1 | Lec 7: Serverless computing I (background & trends) [slides] [slides+notes] |
Project proposal due Berkeley's view of serverless computing |
Firecracker, OpenLambda |
| Apr 8 | Lec 8: Serverless computing II (applications) [infinicache_slides] [wukong_slides] |
InfiniCache, Wukong |
PyWren (numpywren), ExCamera |
| Apr 15 |
Lec 9: Amazon Dynamo [slides]
[slides+notes], |
Amazon Dynamo, |
Google's Bigtable, Chord P2P |
| Apr 22 | Lec 10: Facebook memcache [slides] [slides+notes] |
Facebook memcache, Workload analysis of Facebook's memcache |
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| Apr 29 | Lec 11: Ray RL framework [pdf] [pptx (w/ animation)] [pdf+notes] [pptx+notes] [Ray API examples] | Ray | Parameter Server, MXNet, TensorFlow, Applied ML at Facebook (video) |
| May 6 | Lec 12: Course summary [slides] [slides+notes] [review whiteboard notes] | ||
| May 13 | Project presentation | Final project report and src due Friday 05/15 |