The course will have schedule.
| Week | Date | Subject | Readings |
|---|
| 1 | September 2 | Introduction | Grapevine |
| 2 | September 9 | Load balancing | Caching |
| 3 | September 16 | Replication | Epidemic algorithms |
| 4 | September 23 | Consistency - ordering | Logical time |
| 5 | September 30 | Consistency - Consensus | Paxos |
| 6 | October 7 | No class - OSDI | Chubby, Dynamo |
| 7 | October 14 | Cloud security | Coresidence attacks |
| 8 | October 21 | Security | Taos, Midterm |
| 9 | October 28 | Decentralized systems | Treadmarks, Chord |
| 10 | November 4 | Distributed storage | Coda, Petal. Project 1 due |
| 11 | November 11 | Services | Cloud infrasture: Azure, AppEngine |
| 12 | November 18 | Energy and Security | Fawn / Cloud Security |
| 13 | November 25 | Programming models | Dryad, Map/reduce, Orleans |
| 14 | December 2 | Lessons | 8 fallacies |
| 15 | December 9 | | Project 2 due |
| 16 | December 13 | Exams |
