Lectures

Lectures will be given live in Franz 1178 each Monday and Wednesday from 6-7:50 PM. Lectures will not be recorded but videos of past fully-online lectures from Spring 2020 are available by request to students with legitimate need. (Content and voiceover will be slightly different and may reference the early days of Covid-19 in awkward or depressing ways.)

Lecture presentation slides will be posted before lecture and will only be available to users logging in from their @g.ucla.edu accounts.

Slides will also be available for lab sessions.

Course overview / Development environments / Source control

Lecture: 1
Date: Monday, April 3
Links: Slides, Check-in, Check-out

Testing

Lecture: 2
Date: Wedneday, April 05
Links: Slides, Check-in

Code Reviews and Web Servers

Lecture: 3
Date: Monday, April 10
Links: Slides , Check-in

Build Systems and Deployment

Lecture: 4
Date: Wednesday, April 12
Links: Slides, Check-in
Reading: Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

Testing, Refactoring, Debugging

Lecture: 5
Date: Monday, April 17
Links: Slides, Check-in

Tips for Testing

Lecture: 6
Date: Wednesday, April 19
Links: Slides , Check-in

Static Analysis

Lecture: 7
Date: Monday, April 24
Links: Slides , Check-in
Reading: A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World

Logging, Midterm review

Lecture: 8
Date: Wednesday, April 26
Links: Slides ,Check-in
Reading: Kqueue: A generic and scalable event notification facility

API Design

Lecture: 9
Date: Monday, May 1
Links: Slides , Check-in

API Design & Voting

Lecture: 10
Date: Monday, May 8
Links: Slides, Check-in

The Art of Readable Code

Lecture: 11
Date: Wednesday, May 10
Links: Slides, Check-in

Threading and Concurrency

Lecture: 12
Date: Monday, May 15
Links: Slides, Check-in
Reading: Real-world Concurrency

Web Server & Distributed System Architecture Anti-patterns

Lecture: 13
Date: Wednesday, May 17
Links: Slides, Check-in
Reading: 2003 The Google File System , 2004 MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters , 2006 Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data , 2010 Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure , 2012 Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database