| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| January 3 |
Introduction Reading: Google's Introduction to Distributed System Design Notes Whiteboard Video (netid only) |
| January 5 |
Muddy Foreheads; Failure models Notes Whiteboard Video (netid only) |
| January 7 |
Remote Procedure Call Notes Whiteboard Video (netid only) |
| January 10 |
RPC wrapup and Transition Systems 1 Notes (now expanded! but see L3 for RPC) Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| January 12 |
Primary/backup 1 Notes (combined with L6) Whiteboard Video (netid only) |
| January 14 |
Primary/backup 2 Notes (combined with L5) Whiteboard (picks up from L5) Video (netid only) |
| January 19 |
Transition Systems 2 Notes (combined with L4) Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| January 21 |
Distributed transition systems Notes (TBD) Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| January 24 |
Virtual Clocks Reading (up to, but not including, the section on physical clocks): Lamport, Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events Notes (TBD) Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| January 26 |
Paxos Reading: Lamport, Paxos Made Simple Notes (TBD) Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| January 28 |
More Paxos Notes (TBD) Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| January 31 |
MultiPaxos and Leases Reading (first 20 pages): van Renesse and Altinbuken, Paxos Made Moderately Complex Notes (TBD) Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 2 |
More MultiPaxos Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 4 |
Consistency Models Reading (focus on sections 4 and 5): Lamport, On Interprocess Communication Notes (TBD) Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 7 |
Lab 2 debrief/code review Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 9 |
More Lab 2 debrief Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 11 |
Vector Clocks Reading (focus on Section 10): Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 14 |
Snapshots Reading (focus on Section 13): Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 16 |
Sharding Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 18 |
Two-phase commit Reading (up to, but not including, three-phase commit):Bernstein, Hadzilacos, and Goodman, Distributed Recovery Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 23 |
Microservices Materials Reading (blog): Yegge, Google Platform Rant Reading: Keshav, How to Read a Paper Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 25 |
BigTable Reading (blog): Chang et al., Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| February 28 |
Google File System Reading (blog): Ghemawat et al., The Google File System Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| March 2 |
Spanner Reading (blog): Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| March 4 |
Bayou and git Reading (blog):Terry, Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| March 7 |
Dynamo Reading (blog): Decandia et al., Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| March 9 |
IronFleet Reading (blog): Hawblitzel et al., IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct Whiteboards Video (netid only) |
| March 11 |
Tapir and Course wrapup Reading (blog): Zhang et al., Building Consistent Transactions with Inconsistent Replication Whiteboards Video (netid only) |