Week 1 (October 2-4)

Topics

• Course Introduction (slides)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) (slides)

Tasks

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

Week 2 (October 9-11)

Topics

• HTTP Servers (slides)
• Application Servers (slides)

Tasks

• Complete Project 1
• Begin Project 2
• 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 3 (October 16-18)

Topics

• Scaling Web Applications (slides)
• Architecting for High Availability (slides)
• Read SEDA: An architecture for well-conditioned, scalable internet services by M Welsh, D Culler, E Brewer
• Read A Retrospective on SEDA

Tasks

• Complete Project 2
• Begin Project 3

Week 4 (October 23-25)

Topics

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

Tasks

• (Optional) Find a teammate for Project 3
• Make progress on Project 3

Week 5 (October 30-November 1)

Topics

• Monday: Frontend React Deep Dive by David Acevedo

• Client-side Caching & Content Delivery Networks (slides)
• Server-Side Caching (slides)

Tasks

• Complete Project 3
• Complete Final Project Team Message
• Read Kafka
• Begin Primary Project
  • form a team – merge with two project 3 teams (max 6 people)
  • develop initial features
  • deploy to elastic beanstalk
  • schedule team meeting time with instructor

Week 6 (November 6-8)

Topics

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

Week 7 (November 13-15)

Topics

• Wednesday November 15: Zoom Guest Lecture

• Deep Dive: Load Testing with Tsung (slides)

Tasks

• Read Unifying Consensus and Atomic Commitment for Effective Cloud Data Management

Week 8 (November 20-22)

• Wednesday November 22: Zoom Guest Lecture

• Non-Relational Data Stores (slides)

Tasks

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

Week 9 (November 27-29)

Topics

• Wednesday November 29: Zoom Guest Lecture

• Web Security (slides)

Tasks

• Send project report for feedback before the final submission
• 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 10 (December 4-6)

Topics

• Wednesday December 6: Zoom Guest Lecture

• Scalable Machine Learning Inference

Tasks

• Read chapter 12 of High Performance Browser Networking
• Complete the project report

Finals Week (December 11-13)

Tasks

• Complete the project presentation video