Course Schedule

Part 1: Resources

Week 1

Mon, Jan 20
Martin Luther King Day!
Wed, Jan 22
Course Intro
Read: Syllabus
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Fri, Jan 24
Deployment (Linux Shell)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 2

Mon, Jan 27
Deployment (Linux Pipelines)
Read: Designing Data Intensive Applications, Kleppmann ("Batch Processing with Unix Tools" of Chapter 10)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Wed, Jan 29
Deployment (Docker)
Release: P1 (Docker)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Quiz: week 1
Fri, Jan 31
Network Resources (Overview)
Read: Designing Data Intensive Applications, Kleppmann (Chapter 4, "Encoding and Evolution")
Watch: Part 1: Dockerfiles
Watch: Part 2: Networking Intro
Watch: Part 3: Web Server Demo
Watch: Part 4: gRPC
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 3

Mon, Feb 3
Network Resources (gRPC)
Read: gRPC Basics Tutorial
Watch: Part 1: gRPC Demo
Watch: Part 2: gRPC repeated values
Watch: Part 3: Docker port forwarding
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Feb 5
Network Resources (Compose)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Quiz: week 2 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Feb 7
Memory Resources (Caching)
Read: Systems Performance, Gregg (6.2.2; "CPU Caches" and "Latency" subsections of 6.4.1)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 4

Mon, Feb 10
Memory Resources (Caching Practice)
Due: P1
Release: P2 (Network+Memory)
Watch: Lecture
Wed, Feb 12
Memory Resources (PyArrow)
Read: Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (Examples 1 and 2)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Quiz: week 3 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Feb 14
Compute Resources (Threads)
Read: Fluent Python, 2nd Edition ("What's New in This Chapter" through "A Bit of Jargon" in chapter 19, "Concurrency Models in Python")
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 5

Mon, Feb 17
Compute Resources (Locks)
Read: Mastering Concurrency in Python ("Working With Threads In Python" chapter)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Feb 19
Storage Resources (File Systems)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Quiz: week 4 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Feb 21
Storage Resources (Formats and DBs)
Read: Designing Data Intensive Applications, Kleppmann ("Transaction Processing or Analytics?" and "Column-Oriented Storage" sections of Chapter 3, "Storage and Retrieval")
Due: P2
Release: P3 (Compute+Storage)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 6

Mon, Feb 24
SQL Databases (MySQL)
Read: MySQL Crash Course, Silva (Chapters 3+5), Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Kleppmann ("The Meaning of ACID" section in Chapter 7, "Transactions")
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Feb 26
Midterm (in class)
Fri, Feb 28
SQL Practice
Watch: Lecture
Part 2: Clusters

Week 7

Mon, Mar 3
Hadoop
Read: Mastering Hadoop 3, Singh et al. ("Deep Dive Into the Hadoop Distributed File System" chapter)
Release: P4 (HDFS, Loans)
Due: P3
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Mar 5
MapReduce
Read: Learning Spark, 2nd edition by Damji et al. (sections "The Importance of an Optimal Storage Solution", "Databases", and "Data Lakes" of chapter 9, "Building Reliable Data Lakes with Apache Spark")
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Quiz: week 6 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Mar 7
Spark RDDs
Watch: Lecture

Week 8

Mon, Mar 10
Spark DataFrames
Read: Learning Spark, 2nd edition by Damji et al. (Chapter 4, "Spark SQL and DataFrames: Introduction to Built-in Data Sources")
Watch: Part 1: Spark RDD Demos
Watch: Part 2: Spark DataFrames
Watch: Part 3: Spark with CSVs and Parquets
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Mar 12
Spark SQL
Read: Designing Data Intensive Applications, Kleppmann ("Reduce-Side Joins and Grouping" of Chapter 10, "Batch Processing")
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Quiz: week 7 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Mar 14
Spark Internals and Performance
Read: Learning Spark, 2nd edition by Damji et al. (Chapter 7, "Optimizing and Tuning Spark Applications")
Due: P4
Release: P5 (Spark, Loans)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 9

Mon, Mar 17
Spark Machine Learning API
Read: Learning Spark, 2nd edition by Damji et al. (Chapter 10, "Machine Learning with MLlib")
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Mar 19
Spark Machine Learning: PLANET
Watch: Lecture
Quiz: week 8 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Mar 21
Wide Tables: HBase and Cassandra
Read: Cassandra, The Definitive Guide, by Carpenter et al. (Chapter 4, "The Cassandra Query Language")
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 10

Mon, Mar 24
Spring Break
Wed, Mar 26
Spring Break
Fri, Mar 28
Spring Break

Week 11

Mon, Mar 31
Cassandra Query Language (CQL)
Watch: Part 1: CQL Demos
Watch: Part 2: Cassandra Partitioning
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Apr 2
Cassandra Partitioning
Read: Cassandra, The Definitive Guide, by Carpenter et al. (sections "Data Centers and Racks" to "Hinted Handoff" of Chapter 6, "The Cassandra Architecture")
Due: P5
Release: P6 (Cassandra, Weather)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Quiz: week 10 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Apr 4
Cassandra Replication
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 12

Mon, Apr 7
Midterm (in class)
Wed, Apr 9
Streaming: Kafka Concepts
Read: Kafka, The Definitive Guide, 2nd edition by Shapira et al. ("Enter Kafka" section of Chapter 1, "Meet Kafka")
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Fri, Apr 11
Streaming: Kafka Demos
Watch: Lecture
Anki Flashcards: Deck

Week 13

Mon, Apr 14
Streaming: Kafka Reliability
Read: Kafka, The Definitive Guide, 2nd edition by Shapira et al. (Chapter 7, "Reliable Data Delivery")
Due: P6
Release: P7 (Kafka, Weather Stations)
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Apr 16
Streaming: Spark Programming
Read: Learning Spark, 2nd edition by Damji et al. (Chapter 8, "Structured Streaming")
Watch: Lecture
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Quiz: week 12 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Apr 18
Streaming: Spark Concepts
Watch: Lecture
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Part 3: Cloud

Week 14

Mon, Apr 21
The Cloud
Slides: PDF
Anki Flashcards: Deck
Wed, Apr 23
Big Query 1
Quiz: week 13 and before (cumulative)
Fri, Apr 25
Big Query 2
Read: Google BigQuery: The Definitive Guide, by Lakshmanan et al. ("BigQuery Geographic Information Systems" section of Chapter 8, "Advanced Queries")
Due: P7
Release: P8 (BigQuery, Loans)

Week 15

Mon, Apr 28
Big Query 3
Read: Google BigQuery: The Definitive Guide, by Lakshmanan et al. (Chapter 9, "Machine Learning in BigQuery")
Wed, Apr 30
Big Query 4
Quiz: week 14 and before (cumulative)
Fri, May 2
Review
Due: P8