Week 0 (September 26)

Topics

• Course Introduction - slides

Tasks

• Complete the introduction survey
• Join the class on Piazza
• Begin Project 0
• Read chapters 1, and 2 of High Performance Browser Networking

Week 1 (October 1-3)

Topics

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) - slides
• HTTP Servers - slides
• Application Servers - slides

Tasks

• Complete Project 0
• Read chapters 9, 10, and 11 of High Performance Browser Networking
• Read Dynamic Load Balancing on Web-server Systems by Cardellini, Colajanni, and Yu.

Week 2 (October 8-10)

Topics

• Scaling Web Applications - slides
• Architecting for High Availability slides

Tasks

• Complete Project 1
• Begin Project 2
• Read SEDA: An architecture for well-conditioned, scalable internet services by M Welsh, D Culler, E Brewer
• Read A Retrospective on SEDA

Week 3 (October 15-17)

Topics

• Working in teams slides
  • Agile Software Development
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Continuous Integration (CI)
  • Pair Programming / Mobbing

Tasks

• Complete Project 2
• Begin Project 3
• (Optional) Find a teammate for Project 3

Week 4 (October 22-24)

Topics

• Rails Intro slides
• Server-Side Caching slides

Tasks

• Make progress on Project 3
• Read Kafka

Week 5 (October 29-31)

Topics

• Guest Lecture on React (Tu 10/29)
• Client-Side Caching - slides

Tasks

• Complete Project 3
• Complete Final Project Team Message
• Form a team for Primary Project
  • Find teammates
  • Choose a project
    • Use one of the project ideas (2 to 3 people)
    • or combine multiple project ideas (4 - 6) people
    • or design your own (complexity should be similar to provided project ideas)

Week 6 (November 5-7)

Topics

• Relational Databases slides
• Relational Databases and Rails
• RDBMS Scaling slides

Tasks

• Begin Primary Project Sprint 1
  • develop initial features
  • deploy to elastic beanstalk
  • schedule team meeting time with instructor
• Read Unifying Consensus and Atomic Commitment for Effective Cloud Data Management

Week 7 (November 12-14)

• Deep Dive: Load Testing with Tsung slides
• Non-Relational Data Stores slides

Tasks

• Primary Project Sprint 2
• Read How Discord Stores Billions of Messages
• Read CAP 12 years later by Eric Brewer
• Read Eventually Consistent by Werner Vogels

Week 8 (November 19-21)

Topics

• Web Security slides
• Guest Lecture w/ Andrew Mutz (Th 11/21)

Tasks

• Primary Project Sprint 3
• Read chapter 4 of High Performance Browser Networking
• (Optional) Read Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
• (Optional) Read Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service

Week 9 (November 26)

Topics

• TBD

Tasks

• Primary Project Sprint 4
• Read chapter 12 of High Performance Browser Networking

Week 10 (December 3-5)

Topics

• Guest Lecture (Tu 12/3)
• Scalable Machine Learning Inference

Tasks

• Primary Project Sprint 5
• Send draft of project report for feedback before the final submission
• Read chapter 12 of High Performance Browser Networking
• Complete the project report

Finals Week (December 10-12)

Tasks

• Primary Project Complete Report
• Primary Project Complete Presentation Video