Schedule

The working schedule for the course. Future weeks and classes are tentative and subject to change. Past weeks and classes (indicated by a dark background) can only be modified by Internet time travelers.

Planned topics, readings, in-class activities, and out-of-class assignments

Week	Classes	Outcomes (level)	Readings	Assignments
1	Day1 Day2 Day3	Layered, Understand	A View of Cloud Computing View Condos and clouds Condos The Datacenter as a Computer, 2d. Ed., Ch. 1 Datacenter, Ch. 1	AWS id
2	Day1 Day2 Day3	SLA, Remember	The Datacenter as a Computer, 2d. Ed., Ch. 2 Datacenter, Ch. 2 Condos and clouds Condos
3	Day1 Day2 Day3	Distribute, Understand	The Tail at Scale Tail-Scale	Creating a new access key for an AWS id My little image-sharer
4	Day1 Day2 Day3		There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System Distributed
5	Mon Wed Fri	Distribute, Apply SLA, Understand	There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System Distributed	Developing an SLA
Break		Reading break
6	Mon Wed Fri-midterm	Midterm
7	Mon Wed Fri	CAP, Understand	Distributed systems for fun and profit Distributed systems for fun and profit	Welcome
8	Mon Wed Fri	CAP, Apply	Distributed Algorithms in NoSQL Databases NoSQL	Virtual machine test environment The Tea Emporium
9	Mon Wed Fri	Cluster, Understand
10	Mon Wed Fri	CAP, Analyze
11	Mon Wed Fri	Reliability-classify, Understand	On Designing and Deploying Internet-scale Services Internet-scale The Antifragile Organization Antifragile Weathering the Unexpected Weathering the Unexpected	The Tea Emporium 2
12	Mon Wed--Evals Fri CANCELLED	Cluster, Create Reliability-use, Create	Log Everything All the Time Log Everything All the Time F1: A Distributed Database that Scales F1
13				Final assignment
Final exam				Review for final exam