Schedule

January
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
03	04 17:00-18:00 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom	05 15:30-16:50 Lecture Introduction Reading: Google's Introduction to Distributed System Design Course Mechanics Video Slides Course Topics Video Slides Live Slides (video on canvas)	06	07 Section Labs 0 and 1 intro Slides 12:30 Read Lab 0 (before section) 15:30-16:50 Lecture Remote Procedure Call Video Slides Live Slides	08	09
10	11 9:30-10:30 OH (Arthur) Zoom 17:00-18:00 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom	12 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Primary/backup Video+Quiz, Slides 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 22:30-24:00 OH (Kushal) Zoom	13 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	14 Section Lab 2 intro Slides 15:30-16:50 Lecture Virtual Clocks Video+Quiz, Slides Reading (up to, but not including, the section on physical clocks): Lamport, Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	15 09:30-10:30 OH (Arthur) Zoom 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom 23:59 Lab 1 due	16
17	18 MLK Day	19 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Vector clocks and Snapshots Vector Clock Video Transcript Slides Snapshot Video Transcript Slides Reading (focus on Section 10 and 13): Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 22:30-24:00 OH (Kushal) Zoom	20 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 16:30-17:30 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	21 Section Lab 2 cont. Slides 15:30-16:50 Lecture Memory Consistency Video Transcript Slides Reading (focus on section 4): Lamport, On Interprocess Communication 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	22 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom	23
24	25 9:30-10:30 OH (Arthur) Zoom 17:00-18:00 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom	26 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Cache Coherence Video Slides Live Slides 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 22:30-24:00 OH (Kushal) Zoom	27 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	28 Section Lab 2 open office hours 15:30-16:50 Lecture Content Distribution and DNS Video Slides 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	29 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom	30
31	01 9:30-10:30 OH (Arthur) Zoom 17:00-18:00 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom 17:00-18:00 OH (Leiyi): Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom 23:59 Lab 2 due	02 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Paxos Reading: Lamport, Paxos Made Simple Video Slides 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 22:30-24:00 OH (Kushal) Zoom	03 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	04 Section Single instance Paxos Slides 15:30-16:50 Lecture Multi-round Paxos and Leases Reading (first 20 pages): van Renesse and Altinbuken, Paxos Made Moderately Complex Video Slides 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	05 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom	06

February
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
07	08 9:30-10:30 OH (Arthur) Zoom 17:00-18:00 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom	09 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Sharding Video Slides Live Slides 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 22:30-24:00 OH (Kushal) Zoom	10 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	11 Section Multi instance Paxos Slides (Subject to change) 15:30-16:50 Lecture Two-phase commit Video Slides Reading (up to, but not including, three-phase commit): Bernstein, Hadzilacos, and Goodman, Distributed Recovery 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	12	13 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom
14	15 President's Day	16 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Non-blocking two-phase commit Video Slides 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 22:30-24:00 OH (Kushal) Zoom	17 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 16:30-17:30 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	18 Section Lab 3 open office hours 15:30-16:50 Lecture Microservices and BigTable Reading (blog): Yegge, Google Platform Rant Reading (blog): Chang et al., Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Video BigTable slides Yegge slides 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	19 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom	20
21	22 9:30-10:30 OH (Arthur) Zoom 17:00-18:00 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom	23 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Google File System Reading (blog): Ghemawat et al., The Google File System Video Slides 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	24 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 23:59 Lab 3 due	25 Section Lab 4 ShardMaster Slides 15:30-16:50 Lecture Spanner Reading (blog): Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database Video Slides 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	26 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom	27
28	01 9:30-10:30 OH (Arthur) Zoom 17:00-18:00 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom	02 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Eventual Consistency Reading (blog): Terry, Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou Video Slides 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 22:30-24:00 OH (Kushal) Zoom	03 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	04 Section Lab 4 ShardStoreServer and Multi-key Transactions Slides 15:30-16:50 Lecture More Eventual Consistency Reading (blog): Decandia, Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store Video Slides 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	05 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom	06

March
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
07	08 9:30-10:30 OH (Arthur) Zoom 17:00-18:00 OH (Arthur) Zoom 18:00-20:00 OH (Travis) Zoom	09 11:00-12:00 OH (Leiyi) Zoom 15:30-16:50 Lecture Clouds: Past, Present, (blog): Anderson et al., The Case for NOW 17:00-18:00 OH (Tom) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 22:30-24:00 OH (Kushal) Zoom	10 10:00-11:00 OH (Roy) Zoom 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	11 Section Lab 4 Open Office Hours Slides 15:30-16:50 Lecture Clouds: and Future Reading (blog): Barrosso et al., Attack of the Killer Microseconds 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	12 15:00-16:00 OH (Anirudh) Zoom	13
14	15 17:00-18:00 OH (Anna): NO LAB HELP Zoom	16 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	17 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom	18 20:30-21:30 OH (Andrew) Zoom 23:59 Lab 4 due	19	20