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The following lecture schedule is tentative and might be updated during the semester. We will be keeping you informed of any changes via Piazza. Make sure to become familiar with the Official Semester Dates
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MSAT refers to the textbook Distributed Systems 4th Edition (by Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum).

Date	Topic	Assigned Reading	Instructor
9/3	L0: Course introduction	MSAT Ch. 1	VK
9/8	L1: Computation and synchronization primitives	MSAT Ch. 3.1	AAD
9/10	L2: Communication Primitives (RPCs)	MSAT 4.1, 4.2	AAD
9/15	L3: Concurrency and parallelism; Common Go Bugs		AAD
9/17	L4: Sharding and consistent hashing; Into to MapReduce	MapReduce	AAD
9/22	L5: MapReduce	MapReduce	AAD
9/24	Quiz 1: Lectures 0-5		AAD
9/29	L6: Time in distributed systems	MSAT 5.1, 5.2	VK
10/1	L7: Failure detection, failure models, recovery	MSAT 8.1, 8.2.8, 8.3	VK
10/6	L8: Distributed snapshots	MSAT 8.6, Distributed snapshots	VK
10/8	L9: Replication	MSAT 7.1	AAD
10/14	Review		-
10/15	MIDTERM (Lec0-9)		-
10/20	L10: Distributed Consensus I	Raft	AAD
10/22	L11: Distributed Consensus II	Raft	AAD
10/27	L12: Distributed Consensus III	Raft	AAD
10/29	Quiz 2: Lectures 10-12		AAD
11/3	L13: Consistency in Distributed Systems; Intro to Consistency Models	MSAT 7.2, 7.3, 7.5	VK
11/5	L14: The Google File System	The Google file system	VK
11/10	L15: Distributed Transactions and Serializability	MSAT 7.2	VK
11/12	L16: Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-Value Store	Dynamo	VK
11/17	L17: Distributed Transactions, Atomicity, Two-Phase Commit	MSAT 8.5	VK
11/19	L18: Spanner: Google’s Globally Distributed Database	Spanner	VK
11/24	L19: Spanner Part 2 - r/o transactions via snapshot isolation, safe time, commit wait	Spanner	VK
12/1	Quiz preparation / Hacking day		VK
12/3	Quiz 3: Lectures 13-19		VK
12/8	L20: Advanced topics in Distributed Systems		VK
12/10	Final Review		VK