Lectures

Week	Date	Lecture Title	Slides	Readings	Note
Week 1	01/21 Wed	Course Introduction	Slides	How to Read a Paper
Week 2	01/26 Mon	Snow Day			Class canceled due to snow day.
Week 2	01/28 Wed	The Rise of Cloud Computing	Slides	The Datacenter as a Computer (Chapters 1–3)
Week 3	02/02 Mon	Distributed System Foundation	Slides	Above the Clouds
Week 3	02/04 Wed	Case Study: Google File System	Slides	GFS
Week 4	02/09 Mon	Lab Day
Week 4	02/11 Wed	Data-parallel Computation	Slides	MapReduce, Hive(Optional)
Week 5	02/16 Mon	Data Consistency	Slides	Raft, Paxos(Optional)
Week 5	02/18 Wed	Data Consistency II	Slides	Raft, Paxos(Optional)
Week 6	02/23 Mon	Snow Day			Class canceled due to snow day.
Week 6	02/25 Wed	Milestone Demo I
Week 7	03/02 Mon	Virtualization	Slides	Xen
Week 7	03/04 Wed	Resource Management	Slides	Mesos, Borg
Week 8	03/09 Mon	Spring Break
Week 8	03/11 Wed	Spring Break
Week 9	03/16 Mon	Cloud Storage Systems	Slides	Ceph, Flat Datacenter Storage
Week 9	03/18 Wed	Milestone Demos II
Week 10	03/23 Mon	Cloud Data Systems	Slides	Amazon Aurora
Week 10	03/25 Wed	Data Processing	Slides	Kafka
Week 11	03/30 Mon	Data Processing II	Slides	Spark
Week 11	04/01 Wed	Severless Computing	Slides
Week 12	04/06 Mon	Milestone Demos III
Week 12	04/08 Wed	Performance Issue	Slides	The Tail at Scale, Metastable Failure
Week 13	04/13 Mon	Performance Tracing	Slides	The Mystery Machine, Canopy
Week 13	04/15 Wed	Cloud Failures	Slides	Understanding Failures, Large-scale Failure Study
Week 14	04/20 Mon	Runtime Checking	Slides
Week 14	04/22 Wed	LLM Infrastructure	Slides	KV Cache
Week 15	04/27 Mon	LLM Infrastructure II	Slides	vLLM
Week 15	04/29 Wed	Final Presentations I
Week 16	05/04 Mon	Final Presentations II