Lectures

Lectures will be given live in Physics and Astronomy 1425 each Tuesday and Thursday from 4-5:50 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
Testing
Code Reviews and Web Servers
Build Systems and Deployment
Testing, Refactoring, Debugging
Tips for Testing
Static Analysis
Logging, Midterm review
API Design
API Design & Voting
The Art of Readable Code
Threading and Concurrency
Web Server & Distributed System Architecture Anti-patterns
Performance
Monitoring & Invariant Testing
Documentation, Postmortems, Team Structure
Guest Lecture: Production Software Engineering

Course overview / Development environments / Source control

Lecture: 1
Date: Tuesday, March 29
Links: Slides

Testing

Lecture: 2
Date: Thursday, March 31
Links: Slides

Code Reviews and Web Servers

Lecture: 3
Date: Tuesday, April 05
Links: Slides , Rubber Duck Responds

Build Systems and Deployment

Lecture: 4
Date: Thursday, April 07
Links: Slides
Reading: Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

Testing, Refactoring, Debugging

Lecture: 5
Date: Tuesday, April 12
Links: Slides

Tips for Testing

Lecture: 6
Date: Thursday, April 14
Links: Slides , Rubber Duck Responds

Static Analysis

Lecture: 7
Date: Tuesday, April 19
Links: Slides , GDB & Valgrind Demo
Reading: A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World

Logging, Midterm review

Lecture: 8
Date: Thursday, April 21
Links: Slides
Reading: Kqueue: A generic and scalable event notification facility

API Design

Lecture: 9
Date: Tuesday, April 26
Links: Slides

API Design & Voting

Lecture: 10
Date: Tuesday, May 3
Links: Slides

The Art of Readable Code

Lecture: 11
Date: Thursday, May 5
Links: Slides

Threading and Concurrency

Lecture: 12
Date: Tuesday, May 10
Links: Slides
Reading: Real-world Concurrency

Web Server & Distributed System Architecture Anti-patterns

Lecture: 13
Date: Thursday, May 12
Links: Slides
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