| Week |
Topics |
Code/Resources |
Assignments Due |
1
1/23-1/25 |
Intro to Distributed Systems
Computer Networking
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Distributed Systems: for fun and profit
High Scalability Blog
Timelines at Scale
Maven in 5 Minutes
Concurrency Slides
Concurrency Summary
Threads Code
Java Threads
|
Due Thursday - 9:30am
Homework 0
Reading - Takada - Ch. 1
|
2
1/30-2/1 |
Protocol Buffers
ZooKeeper
Reliable Data Transfer
|
microcloud node/port assignments
sockets
zookeeper
protocol buffers
udppeer
|
Reading - Bonaventure - Recovering from error
|
3
2/6-2/8 |
Project 1 Demos - Tuesday 2/6
Reliable Data Transfer
|
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Due Tuesday - start of class
Project 1 - Demo
Due Wednesday - 5pm
Project 1 - Final Code Upload
|
4
2/13-2/15 |
Reliable Data Transfer
Web Services
|
Summary of Java Synchronization
Go-Back-N Animation
udppeer
synchronization
|
Due Thursday - Watch Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices
|
5
2/20-2/22 |
Web Services
Project work day
|
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Due Thursday - start of class
Project 2 - Demo
Due Friday - 5pm
Project 2 - Final Code Upload
|
6
2/27-3/2 |
Web Services
Time and Global State
|
CAP Theorem
Distributed Systems: for fun and profit - Ch 1 - 2
|
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7
3/6-3/8 |
Exam 1 - Thursday 3/8
|
Study Guide
Sample Exam
|
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| Spring break - woohoo! |
8
3/20-3/22 |
Replication
Facebook Paper Discussion
|
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Due Tuesday - Read Kleppmann - Ch 5 - Replication
Due Thursday before class - Read Existential Consistency: Measuring and Understanding Consistency at Facebook and submit the Review Form
|
9
3/27-3/29 |
Dynamo Paper Discussion
|
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Due Tuesday before class - Read Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store and submit the Review Form
Due Friday - 5PM
Project 3 Code and Deployment
|
10
4/3-4/5 |
Coordination and Agreement
Transactions
|
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Due Tuesday - Read Kleppmann - Ch 7 - Transactions - Ch 9 - pp. 352-362 (Distributed Transactions and Consensus)
|
11
4/10-4/12 |
Transactions
Consensus
|
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Due Thursday - Read In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm and submit the Review Form
|
12
4/17-4/19 |
Raft
Paxos
Spanner
Spanner Discussion Questions
|
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Due Thursday - Read Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database and submit the Review Form
|
13
4/24-4/26 |
Project 4 Demos
Spanner
Spanner Discussion Questions
|
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Due Monday - 5PM
Project 4 Code and Demonstration
|
14
5/1-5/3 |
Exam 2 - Thursday 5/3
|
Study Guide
Sample Exam
|
Due Monday - 5PM
Project 5 Proposal
|
15
5/8-5/10 |
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Due Tuesday - start of class
Project 5 Checkpoint 1
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Finals Week
5/12-5/17 |
Project 5 Demonstrations |