Week 1

• September 26th, 2016: Schedule / Syllabus
• September 28th, 2016: Cloud Intro, Data Center Network Architecture (pdf) / (pptx)

Week 2

• October 3rd, 2016: PortLand Network Architecture (pdf) / (pptx)
• October 5rd, 2016: Data Center TCP (DCTCP) (pdf) / (pptx)

Week 3

• October 10th, 2016: Improving Datacenter Performance and Robustness with Multipath TCP (pdf) / (pptx)
• October 12th, 2016: Software Defined Networks (Cello) (pdf) / (pptx)

Week 4

• October 17th, 2016: Networking Wrap-Up and Storage Intro (pdf) / (pptx)
• October 19th, 2016: Haystack (pdf) / (pptx)

Week 5

• October 24th, 2016: HDFS (pdf) / (pptx)
• October 26th, 2016: Cassandra - A Decentralized Storage System (pdf) / (pptx) / Redis Cluster: (pdf, external)

Week 6

• October 31st, 2016: Memcached and Redis (pdf) / (pptx) / Redis Cluster: (pdf, external)
• November 2nd, 2016: SQL, NoSQL, and MongoDB (pdf) / (pptx)

Week 7

• November 7th, 2016: BigTable (pdf) / (pptx)
• November 9th, 2016: Xen (pdf) / (pptx)

Week 8

• November 16th, 2016: Introduction to YARN (IBM, external)
• November 18th, 2016: Basket of Special Requests
  • Mesos (NSDI): (pdf) / (pptx)
  • Zookeeper (Hadoop Summity): (pdf) / (pptx)
  • The Tail at Scale: (pdf) / (pptx)

Week 9

• November 23, 2016: Dynamically scaling applications in the cloud (SIGCOMM)
• November 25, 2016: No class -- Thanksgiving

Week 10

• November 28th, 2016: Apache Spark (pdf) / (pptx)

  Final Exams

  • Monday, December 5, 2016 from 7:00pm - 9:59pm (Location TBA))