Here is the tentative schedule of lectures and due dates. The lecture notes and paper questions for future dates are copies from previous years, and may change. Lectures are in E25-111, Tues/Thurs 1:00 to 2:30.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
feb 5 First day of classes	feb 6 LEC 1 (rtm): Introduction, video Preparation: Read MapReduce (2004) Assigned: Lab 1: MapReduce	feb 7	feb 8 LEC 2 (rtm): RPC and Threads, crawler.go, kv.go, vote examples, video Preparation: Do Online Go tutorial (FAQ) (Question)	feb 9
feb 12	feb 13 LEC 3 (snowstorm): None Assigned: Lab 2: Key/Value server	feb 14	feb 15 LEC 4 (rtm): Consistency and Linearizability Preparation: Linearizability Testing (FAQ) (Question)	feb 16 DUE: Lab 1. All labs are due at 11:59pm.
feb 19 President's day	feb 20 Assigned: Lab 3: Raft Monday schedule	feb 21	feb 22 LEC 5 (guest lecture): (Russ Cox of Google/Go) Go patterns Preparation: Read The Go Programming Language and Environment (FAQ) (Question)	feb 23 DUE: Lab 2
feb 26	feb 27 LEC 6 (fk): GFS, video Preparation: Read GFS (2003) (FAQ) (Question)	feb 28	feb 29 LEC 7 (fk): Fault Tolerance: Raft (1), video Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), to end of Section 5 (FAQ) (Question)	mar 1 DUE: Lab 3A
mar 4	mar 5 LEC 8 (fk): Fault Tolerance: Raft (2), video Preparation: Read Raft (extended) (2014), Section 7 to end (but not Section 6) (FAQ) (Question) Assigned: Final Project	mar 6	mar 7 LEC 9 (rtm): Zookeeper, video Preparation: Read ZooKeeper (2010) (FAQ) (Question)	mar 8 DUE: Lab 3B ADD DATE
mar 11	mar 12 LEC 10 (fk): Q&A Lab 3A+B Preparation: (Question) Assigned: Lab 4: KV Raft	mar 13	mar 14 LEC 11 (upamanyu): Verified Primary/Backup Preparation: Read Grove (2023), focus on sections 1, 2, 7 (Question)	mar 15 DUE: Lab 3C
mar 18	mar 19 LEC 12 (rtm): Distributed Transactions, video Preparation: Read 6.033 Chapter 9, just 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.5.2, 9.5.3, 9.6.3 (FAQ) (Question)	mar 20	mar 21 Mid-term Exam at 1:00pm. Last names A-K in E25-111, L-Z in 45-230. Materials: Open book, notes, laptop Scope: Lectures 1 through 12, Labs 1, 2, and 3A-C Old Exams	mar 22 DUE: Project proposals (if you are doing a project)
mar 25 Spring break	mar 26 Spring break	mar 27 Spring break	mar 28 Spring break	mar 29 Spring break
apr 1	apr 2 LEC 13 (rtm): Spanner, video Preparation: Read Spanner (2012) (FAQ) (Question) Assigned: Lab 5: Sharded KV	apr 3	apr 4 LEC 14 (rtm): Chardonnay Preparation: Read Chardonnay (2023) (FAQ) (Question)	apr 5 DUE: Lab 3D
apr 8	apr 9 LEC 15 (fk): Optimistic Concurrency Control, video, video cont. Preparation: Read FaRM (2015) (FAQ) (Question)	apr 10	apr 11 LEC 16 (Doug Terry, virtually on Zoom): Amazon DynamoDB slides Preparation: Read DynamoDB (2022) (Question)	apr 12 DUE: Lab 4A
apr 15 Patriot's day	apr 16 LEC 17 (fk): Ray Preparation: Read Ray (2021) (FAQ) (Question)	apr 17	apr 18 LEC 18 (rtm): Cache Consistency: Memcached at Facebook, video Preparation: Read Memcached at Facebook (2013) (FAQ) (Question)	apr 19 DUE: Lab 4B
apr 22	apr 23 LEC 19 (Marc Brooker, virtually on Zoom): AWS Lambda slides Preparation: Read On-demand Container Loading (2023) (Question) DROP DATE	apr 24	apr 25 LEC 20 (fk): Boki Preparation: Read Boki (2021) (FAQ) (Question)	apr 26 DUE: Lab 5A
apr 29	apr 30 LEC 21 (rtm): Fork Consistency, SUNDR, video Preparation: Read SUNDR (2004) (through the end of Section 3.3.2) (FAQ) (Question)	may 1	may 2 LEC 22 (fk): Byzantine Fault Tolerance Preparation: Read Practical BFT (1999) (FAQ) (Question)	may 3
may 6	may 7 LEC 23 (rtm): Peer-to-peer: Bitcoin, video Preparation: Read Bitcoin (2008), and summary (FAQ) (Question)	may 8	may 9 LEC 24: Canceled, no lecture, no class meeting	may 10 DUE: Lab 5B DUE: Project reports and code
may 13	may 14 LEC 25: Project demos, video Last day of classes	may 15	may 16	may 17 Final Exam, Johnson Ice Rink, 1:30pm to 3:30pm (2 hours) Materials: Open book, notes, and laptop. Scope: Lectures 13 through 23, Lab 4. Old Exams

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