Lec #	Date	Topic	Notes/additional material	Papers to review	Checkpoints/Other refs
1	9/7	Course Introduction	Course Logistics	How to read 1; 2	Did you get the Piazza welcome email? (check your wisc ID)
2	9/9	Data Center Architecture		B+09; G+09 (skim)
3	9/12	Storage		S+10
4	9/14	MapReduce		G+04
5	9/16	Stragglers		A+10
6	9/19	YARN		V+13; Z+11 (skim)
7	9/23	DRF		G+11
8	9/26	Tetris		G+14
9	9/28	Spark		ZC+10; L+15 (skim)
10	10/03	DAGs: Tez		SS+15
11	10/05	Sparrow		O+13
12	10/10	Borg		V+15
13	10/12	SQL: Hive		H+14
14	10/14	Geo-distrbuted Analytics		VCB+15; VA+16 (skim)
15	10/17	Storm		T+14; KB+15 (skim)
17	10/21	Mid-term in class	Topics: See Piazza post
16	10/26	Spark Streaming		ZD+13
20	10/28	QMS: Kafka	QMS Talk Slides	K+11
18	10/31	rStreams		L+16
19	11/4	Pregel		M+10
20	11/9	Graph Processing: GraphX		G+14; GL+12 (skim)
21	11/11	Naiad		M+13
22	11/14	Parameter Server		LA+14
23	11/18	TensorFlow		AB+16
24	11/21	TensorFlow - Continued		AB+16
25	12/5	Approximation		AM+13
26	12/7	Compression		AS+15; M+15 (optional)
27	12/9	Course Summarization
28	12/14	Mid-term 2 in class	Topics: See Piazza post