Course description

This course will "put the meat on the bones" of our popular Hadoop programming course. We will discuss the software techniques employed to construct and program reliable highly-scalable systems. You should think of this course as covering "cool current topics in computer systems." The course will be staffed by Ed Lazowska, Aaron Kimball, and Slava Chernyak. Guest lecturers will include Jeff Dean (Google Fellow), Werner Vogels (VP and CTO, Amazon.com), Mike Cafarella (co-creator of Nutch and Hadoop), Barry Brumitt (Google), Yoshi Kohno (UW), James Hamilton (Microsoft), Steve Gribble (UW and Google), Phil Bernstein (Microsoft), and others who don't know they should be hiding from us. You will read a number of recent research papers. Programming exercises, as in previous instances of the course, will involve Hadoop running on a cluster provided by Google; there will also be an Amazon Web Services exercise. Major projects will be deferred to Winter Quarter.

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