| Week 1 |
09/02 Wed |
Course Introduction |
Slides
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How to Read a Paper
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Projects released. Project preferences due Sun 09/06. |
| Week 2 |
09/07 Mon |
No Class |
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Labor Day -- classes suspended. |
| Week 2 |
09/09 Wed |
The Rise of Cloud Computing |
Slides
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Above the Clouds
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Team matching complete. Meet your mentors. |
| Week 3 |
09/14 Mon |
Intro to Distributed Systems |
Slides
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GFS
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Quiz |
| Week 3 |
09/16 Wed |
Data-parallel Computation |
Slides
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MapReduce
,
Hive(Optional)
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Quiz |
| Week 4 |
09/21 Mon |
Lab Day |
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| Week 4 |
09/23 Wed |
Milestone Demo I |
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Demo 1 -- design proposal. Due 12:00 noon, branch demo-1. |
| Week 5 |
09/28 Mon |
Data Consistency |
Slides
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Raft
,
Paxos(Optional)
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Quiz |
| Week 5 |
09/30 Wed |
Data Consistency II |
Slides
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Raft
,
Paxos(Optional)
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Quiz |
| Week 6 |
10/05 Mon |
Big Data Frameworks |
Slides
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Spark
|
Quiz |
| Week 6 |
10/07 Wed |
Virtualization |
Slides
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Xen
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Quiz |
| Week 7 |
10/12 Mon |
No Class |
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Indigenous Peoples' Day -- classes suspended. |
| Week 7 |
10/13 Tue |
Datacenter Architectures |
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VL2
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Aquila
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Quiz |
| Week 7 |
10/14 Wed |
Resource Management |
Slides
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Mesos
,
Borg
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Quiz |
| Week 8 |
10/19 Mon |
Lab Day |
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| Week 8 |
10/21 Wed |
Milestone Demos II |
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Demo 2 -- working prototype. Due 12:00 noon, branch demo-2. |
| Week 9 |
10/26 Mon |
Cloud Storage Systems |
Slides
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Ceph
,
Flat Datacenter Storage
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Quiz |
| Week 9 |
10/28 Wed |
Cloud Data Systems |
Slides
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Dynamo
,
DynamoDB
|
Quiz |
| Week 10 |
11/02 Mon |
Log Processing |
Slides
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Kafka
|
Quiz |
| Week 10 |
11/04 Wed |
Serverless Computing |
Slides
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Serverless Computing
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Quiz |
| Week 11 |
11/09 Mon |
Performance Issue |
Slides
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The Tail at Scale
,
Making Sense of Performance
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Quiz |
| Week 11 |
11/11 Wed |
Performance Tracing |
Slides
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The Mystery Machine
,
Pivot Tracing
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Quiz |
| Week 12 |
11/16 Mon |
Milestone Demos III |
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Demo 3 -- optimized system. Due 12:00 noon, branch demo-3. |
| Week 12 |
11/18 Wed |
Cloud Failures |
Slides
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Understanding Failures
,
Large-scale Failure Study
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Quiz |
| Week 13 |
11/23 Mon |
LLM Infrastructure |
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Orca
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Quiz |
| Week 13 |
11/25 Wed |
No Class |
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Thanksgiving recess. |
| Week 14 |
11/30 Mon |
LLM Infrastructure II |
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vLLM
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Quiz |
| Week 14 |
12/02 Wed |
Reliability and AIOps |
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How to Fight Production Incidents
,
LLM for Root-Cause and Mitigation
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Quiz |
| Week 15 |
12/07 Mon |
Lab Day |
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| Week 15 |
12/09 Wed |
Final Presentations |
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Final -- due 12:00 noon, branch final-demo. |