| # | Topic | Readings | Slides | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and System Model | §1, §2.4 (except 2.4.3) | 2025-01-22 | |
| 2 | Failure Detection | §15.1 | 2025-01-24 | |
| 3 | Failure Detection (contd), Clocks and Time | §15.1, §14.1-14.3 | 2025-01-29 | |
| 4 | Clocks and Time (contd) | §14.1-14.3 | 2025-01-31 | |
| 5 | Logical Timestamps, Global State | §14.4-14.5 | 2025-02-05 | |
| 6 | Global State (contd.) | §14.5 | 2025-02-07 | |
| 7 | Global State (contd.), Multicast | §14.5, §15.4 | 2025-02-12 | |
| 8 | Multicast (contd.) | §15.4, PPT for ISIS # slides | 2025-02-14 | |
| 9 | Multicast (contd.) | §15.4 | 2025-02-19 | |
| 10 | Mutual Exclusion | §15.2 | 2025-02-21 | |
| 11 | Mutual Exclusion (contd), Leader Election | §15.2-15.3 | 2025-02-26 | |
| 12 | Leader Election (contd), Exam Review | $15.3 | 2025-02-28 | |
| 13 | No class (Midterm 1, Mar 4 - Mar 6 via CBTF) | 2025-03-05 | ||
| 14 | Leader Election (contd), Synchronous Consensus | §15.3, §15.5 | 2025-03-07 | |
| 15 | Paxos | Paxos Made Simple | 2025-03-12 | |
| 16 | Paxos (contd), Raft | Raft; Raft Tutorial; Raft Paper | 2025-03-14 | |
| 17 | Raft (contd) | §16 | 2025-03-26 | |
| 18 | Blockchains | Bitcoin Paper | 2025-03-28 | |
| 19 | Transactions Processing and Concurrency Control | §16 | 2025-04-02 | |
| 20 | Exam Review | 2025-04-04 | ||
| 21 | No class (Midterm 2, Apr 8 - Apr 10 via CBTF) | 2025-04-09 | ||
| 22 | Transactions Processing and Concurrency Control (contd) | §16 | 2025-04-11 | |
| 23 | Distributed Transactions | §17 | 2025-04-16 | |
| 24 | DHT + P2P systems (Chord) | §10.4-10.5, Chord paper | 2025-04-18 | |
| 25 | Chord (contd), MapReduce | Mapreduce Paper | 2025-04-23 | |
| 26 | MapReduce (contd), Scheduling | DRF | 2025-04-25 | |
| 27 | Scheduling (contd), Distributed Datastores | §21 | 2025-04-30 | |
| 28 | Distributed Datastores (contd) | §21 | 2025-05-02 | |
| 29 | Exam Review + Open Ended Q/A | Good luck for Exams! | 2025-05-07 |
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