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Note: Schedule is tentative—check Canvas for the latest updates and slide uploads.

Week	Mon	Wed	Fri
1	—	8 / 27 Orientation & Syllabus	8 / 29 Cloud Intro I
2	9 / 1 Cloud Intro II, Golang 101	9 / 3 Dist-Sys Foundations I	9 / 5 Dist-Sys Foundations II
3	9 / 8 MapReduce I ★	9 / 10 MapReduce II	9 / 12 RPC I
4	9 / 15 RPC II	9 / 17 Transactions I	9 / 19 Hacker Day
5	9 / 22 Transactions II	9 / 24 Transactions III	9 / 26 Time & Coordination I
6	9 / 29 Time & Coordination II ★	10 / 1 Agreement	10 / 3 Two-Phase Commit I
7	10 / 6 Two-Phase Commit II	10 / 8 Guest Talk (Ruiming Lu, SJTU & UMich)	10 / 10 Consensus I
8	10 / 13 Reading Day	10 / 15 Consensus II	10 / 17 Consensus III
9	10 / 20 Hacker Day ★	10 / 22 Midterm Review	10 / 24 Midterm Exam
10	10 / 27 Consensus IV	10 / 29 Isolation & Consistency I	10 / 31 Isolation & Consistency II
11	11 / 3 Case Study: GFS I paper	11 / 5 Case Study: GFS II paper	11 / 7 Case Study: ZooKeeper paper
12	11 / 10 Lab Day • Play w/ ZK I	11 / 12 Lab Day • Play w/ ZK II	11 / 14 Lab Day • Hack ZK
13	11 / 17 Cloud Infra ★	11 / 19 Virtualization I	11 / 21 Virtualization II + Gandalf
14	11 / 24 Hacker Day	11 / 26 Thanksgiving Recess	11 / 28 Thanksgiving Recess
15	12 / 1 MLSys	12 / 3 Reliability	12 / 5 Final Review
16	12 / 8 Extra Q&A ★	—	—

Final Exam: December 11, 2025 2:00PM-3:30pm