Lectures

Lectures will be given live in Young CS 76 each Monday and Wednesday from 4-5:50 PM. Lectures will not be recorded or live streamed.

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

Table of contents

Course overview / Development environments / Source control
Testing
Code Reviews and Web Servers
Build Systems and Deployment
Testing, Refactoring, Dependency Injection
Tips for Testing
Static Analysis
Logging, Midterm review
API Design
Threading and Concurrency (remote, in place of postponed midterm)
API Design & Voting
Web Server & Distributed System Architecture Anti-patterns
The Art of Readable Code
Performance
Monitoring, Documentation
Postmortems, Team Structure, AMA
Deployments, Experiments, and Launches

Course overview / Development environments / Source control

Lecture: 1
Date: Monday, April 1
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Testing

Lecture: 2
Date: Wedneday, April 3
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Code Reviews and Web Servers

Lecture: 3
Date: Monday, April 8
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Build Systems and Deployment

Lecture: 4
Date: Wednesday, April 10
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Reading: Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

Testing, Refactoring, Dependency Injection

Lecture: 5
Date: Monday, April 15
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Tips for Testing

Lecture: 6
Date: Wednesday, April 17
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Static Analysis

Lecture: 7
Date: Monday, April 22
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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 24
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Reading: Kqueue: A generic and scalable event notification facility

API Design

Lecture: 9
Date: Monday, April 29
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Threading and Concurrency (remote, in place of postponed midterm)

Lecture: 10
Date: Wednesday, May 1
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Reading: Real-world Concurrency

API Design & Voting

Lecture: 11
Date: Monday, May 6
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Web Server & Distributed System Architecture Anti-patterns

Lecture: 12
Date: Wednesday, May 8
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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

The Art of Readable Code

Lecture: 13
Date: Monday, May 13
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Performance

Lecture: 14
Date: Monday, May 20
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Monitoring, Documentation

Lecture: 15
Date: Wednesday, May 22
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Postmortems, Team Structure, AMA

Lecture: 16
Date: Wednesday, May 29
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Deployments, Experiments, and Launches

Lecture: 17
Date: Monday, June 3
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