| Date | Topic | To read/watch before class | Assignment Out | Assignment Due(11:59pm) |
| Tues Feb 2 | Introduction | |||
| Thurs Feb 4 | Introduction | |||
| Tues Feb 9 | Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) | PA#1 | ||
| Thurs Feb 11 | More on PA#1 | |||
| Tues Feb 16 | Cloud storage, EULAs, and SLAs | |||
| Thurs Feb 18 | Cloud app design (e.g., scalability) | PA#1 | ||
| Tues Feb 23 | PaaS/Containers/Microservices | PA#2 | ||
| Thurs Feb 25 | PaaS/Containers/Microservices | |||
| Tues Mar 2 | Inside datacenters (Comp Arch, OS, Xen) | |||
| Thurs Mar 4 | Datacenters case study: Facebook! |
How Facebook keeps its large-scale infrastructure hardware up and running |
PA#2 | |
| Tues Mar 9 | No class!! | |||
| Thurs Mar 11 | Serverless/lambda | PA#3 | ||
| Tues Mar 16 | Serverless/lambda | |||
| Thurs Mar 18 | DevOps | DevOps | ||
| Tues Mar 23 | Cloud security Review for Midterm | PA#3 | ||
| Thurs Mar 25 | Midterm exam | |||
| Tues Mar 30 | Intro to Big Data et. al | PA#4 | ||
| Thurs Apr 1 | More Big Data et al | |||
| Tues Apr 6 | Hive & Pig | |||
| Thurs Apr 8 | Open Source Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud | PA#4 | ||
| Tues Apr 13 | AI, GPU computing | PA#5 | ||
| Thurs Apr 15 | No class!! | |||
| Tues Apr 20 | ML, TensorFlow | |||
| Thurs Apr 22 | Intro to noSQL | NoSQL | PA#5 | |
| Tues Apr 27 | Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB | PA#6 | ||
| Thurs Apr 29 | Streaming data | |||
| Tues May 4 | IOT / Edge | |||
| Thurs May 6 | Next-gen Cloud, Course Wrap-up! | PA#6 | ||
| Sat May 8 10am -- noon |
Final exam |