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
Week 5	02/16 Mon	Fault Tolerance	Slides	Raft
Week 5	02/18 Wed	Data Consistency	Slides	ZooKeeper
Week 6	02/23 Mon	Big Data Frameworks	Slides	Spark
Week 6	02/25 Wed	Milestone Demo I
Week 7	03/02 Mon	Virtualization	Slides	Xen
Week 7	03/04 Wed	Datacenter Architectures	Slides	VL2, Aquila
Week 8	03/09 Mon	Spring Break
Week 8	03/11 Wed	Spring Break
Week 9	03/16 Mon	Milestone Demos II
Week 9	03/18 Wed	Resource Management	Slides	Mesos
Week 10	03/23 Mon	Resource Management	Slides	Borg, Kubernetes
Week 10	03/25 Wed	Cloud Storage Systems	Slides	Ceph
Week 11	03/30 Mon	Cloud Networking	Slides	Flat Datacenter Storage
Week 11	04/01 Wed	Distributed Systems II	Slides	Kafka, Dynamo
Week 12	04/06 Mon	Milestone Demos III
Week 12	04/08 Wed	Performance Tracing	Slides	The Mystery Machine, Canopy
Week 13	04/13 Mon	Cloud Failures	Slides	Understanding Failures, Large-scale Failure Study
Week 13	04/15 Wed	Cloud Failures II	Slides	Gray Failure, AutoWatchdog
Week 14	04/20 Mon	LLM Infrastructure	Slides	KV Cache
Week 14	04/22 Wed	LLM Infrastructure II	Slides	vLLM
Week 15	04/27 Mon	Final Presentations I
Week 15	04/29 Wed	Final Presentations II