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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.
MSAT refers to the textbook Distributed Systems 4th Edition (by Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum).
| Date | Topic 1 | Exercise | Topic 2 | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue,6/30/26 | L0: Course introduction | Install Go + Word Search | L1: Computation and synchronization primitives | MSAT Ch. 1, MSAT Ch. 3.1 |
| Thu,7/2/26 | L2: Communication Primitives (RPCs) | RPC Server + Data Races | L3: Concurrency and parallelism; Common Go Bugs | MSAT 4.1, 4.2 |
| Tue,7/7/26 | L4: Sharding and consistent hashing; Into to MapReduce | Mini MapReduce | L5: MapReduce | MapReduce |
| Thu,7/9/26 | Quiz 1: Lectures 0-5 | BREAK | L6: Time in distributed systems | MSAT 5.1, 5.2 |
| Tue,7/14/26 | L7: Failure detection, failure models, recovery | Heartbeats | L8: Distributed Snapshots | MSAT 8.1, 8.2.8, 8.3, |
| Thu,7/16/26 | L9: Replication | Vector Timestamper | L10: Distributed Consensus 1 | MSAT 7.1 |
| Tue,7/21/26 | MIDTERM | MIDTERM | L11: Distributed Consensus 2 | Raft |
| Thu,7/23/26 | L12: Distributed Consensus 3 | Raft Worktime | L13: Consistency in Distributed Systems; Intro to Consistency Models | Raft |
| Tue,7/28/26 | L15: TXNs + Serializability | TXN Serialiazability Checker | L14: The Google File System | GFS |
| Thu,7/30/26 | Quiz 2: Lectures 10-14 | BREAK | L16: Dynamo | MSAT 7.2, Dynamo |
| Tue,8/4/26 | L18: 2PC | Consistent Hashing or 2PC (TBD) | L19: Spanner | MSAT 8.5, Spanner |
| Thu,8/6/26 | FINAL | FINAL | FINAL |