Date	Description
January 5	Introduction Reading: Google's Introduction to Distributed System Design Notes
January 7	MapReduce Reading: Dean and Ghemawat, MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters Notes
January 9	More Go Notes
January 12	Remote Procedure Call Notes
January 14	Distributed Time Reading: Lamport, Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events (up to, not including, the section on physical clocks) Notes
January 16	State Machine Replication Reading: Bressoud and Schneider, Hypervisor-based Fault Tolerance Notes
January 21	More State Machine Replication Notes
January 23	Cache Coherence Reading: Ousterhout, The Role of Distributed State Notes
January 26	Cache Coherence: Leases Notes
January 28	Cache Coherence: Callbacks Notes
January 30	Two Phase Commit Reading: Bernstein, Hadzilacos, and Goodman, Distributed Recovery (up to, and not including, three phase commit) Notes
February 2	Paxos Reading: Lamport, Paxos Made Simple Slides
February 4	More Paxos
February 6	Paxos Implemented Reading: Liskov and Cowling, Viewstamped Replication Revisited
February 9	Viewstamped Replication and Byzantine Fault Tolerance Notes
February 11	Bitcoin Reading: Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Notes Summary
February 13	Scaling: SOA Reading: Yegge, Lessons for Google from Amazon's Service Oriented Architecture Notes
February 18	Scaling: Memcache Reading: Nishtala et al., Scaling Memcache at Facebook Notes
February 20	Scaling: Bigtable Reading: Chang et al., Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Slides
February 23	Scaling: GFS Reading: Ghemawat et al., The Google File System Slides
February 25	Scaling: Spanner Reading: Corbett et al., Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database Slides
February 27	Spanner
March 2	Disconnected Operation Reading: Reiher et al., Resolving File Conflicts in Ficus Notes Linus on git
March 4	Irene Zhang, UW Distributed Systems Research Tapir Slides Tapir Tech Report
March 6	Dynamo Reading: DeCandia et al., Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store Notes