Week 1

• Monday January 14th: Course overview (pptx) / (pdf)
• Monday January 16th: "Networking in a Day" (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)

Week 2

• Monday January 21st: No Class -- Martin Luther King Day Observance
• Wednesday January 23rd: Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)

Week 3

• Monday January 28rd: Remote Method Invocation (RMI) (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)
• Wednesday January 30rd: No class -- All classes cancelled by University (Weather)

Week 4

• Monday February 4th: Time Synchronization (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)
• Wednesday February 6th: Concurrency Control (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)

Week 5

• Monday February 11th: Concurrency Control, cont. (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)
• Wednesday February 13th: Coordinator Election (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)

Week 6

• Monday February 18th: Coordinator Election (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)
• Wednesday, February 20th: Raft (pptx) / (pdf) / (raft paper, Ongaro and Ousterhout)

Week 7

• Monday February 25th: PAXOS (paxos pptx) / (paxos pdf) / ("Paxos Made Simple", Lamport)
• Wednesday February 27th: Replication Management (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)

Week 8

• Monday March 4th: General Purpose Distributed File Systems (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)
• Wednesday March 6th: Mid-semester Exam

Spring Break

• No classes

Week 9

• Monday March 18th: Special Purpose Distributed File Systems (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)
• Wednesday March 20th: Memcached and Redis (Memchached/Redis: pptx) / (Memchached/Redis: pdf) / (Redis Cluster: pptx) / (Redis Cluster: pdf)

Week 10

• Monday, March 25th: Transactions, 2PC/3PC, 2PL, Serializability, CAP,ACID, BASE (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)
• Wednesday, March 27th: Logging, Checkpointing, and Recovery (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)

Week 11

• Monday, April 1st: LSMs, Bloom Filters, Cassandra (LSM/Bloom pptx) / (LSM/Bloom pdf) (Cassandra pdf) / (Cassandra pptx)

  Reading: (Grigorik, I, SSTable and Log Structured Storage: LevelDB, 2/6/12)
  Reading: (Bill Mill's Bloomfilters By Example)

• Wednesday, April 3rd: Map-Reduce (pptx) / (pdf) / (supportive notes)

  Reading: Dean and Ghemawat (Google), "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters", OSDI'04.

Week 12

• Monday, April 8th: YARN (pptx) / (pdf) / (IBM Developer Works Yarn Intro, pdf)
• Wednesday, April 10th: No class -- Carnival (Enjoy!)

Week 13

• Monday, April 15th: Spark, RDDs, etc. (pptx) / (pdf) / (Datamation article)
• Wednesday, April 17th: Crypto, Blockchains (pptx) / (pdf)

Week 14

• Monday, April 22nd: Key Distribution and Management (pptx) / (pdf)
• Monday, April 24th: Virtual Machines and Containers (pptx) / (pdf)

Week 15

• Monday, April 29th: DNS: The Most Successful Distributed System (pptx) / (pdf)
• Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 -- Final Exam