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Advanced Distributed Systems

202 points by ramses 9y ago

akurilin 9y ago
Was fortunate enough to take Dr. Gupta's undergraduate-level version of this class over a decade ago. To this day I still remember how enjoyable and simple he was able to make this material, despite it being actually somewhat tricky. Definitely one of the best CS lecturers UIUC had to offer at the time.
- optimusclimb 9y ago
  Jealous of such an experience. In my undergrad experience in the early 2000s, when things such as distributed computing came up in the higher level classes, it came with no context. The professor basically handed out, "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System", had us read it, and went straight in to minutiae. It wasn't until years later when it came full circle and I understood better how those things applied to computing problems I'd actually face. Kids have it so much better now with the amount of open courseware/material out there so they can learn from the best, and most passionate teachers, and not just have someone jam through powerpoint so they can get back to their research.
madhusudhan000 9y ago
I have taken the Cloud computing specialization in Coursera which was taught by Dr. Gupta. One of the best courses I have taken. Excited for this one. They should offer an Online masters for this, just like the data science one on Coursera
- bootcat 9y ago
  So this course is only to be taken by students of university ? Theres no web version ?
  - dqpb 9y ago
    It seems the course primarily consists of reading/presenting/debating papers. Here's the epic reading list: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs525/sp2018/sched.htm https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs525/sp2018/sched.htm
subbu 9y ago
Are they offering video recordings of this course? Dr. Gupta's earlier cloud computing course videos were just brilliant. I still listen to them regularly.
- akvar 9y ago
  Would you mind posting a link to these earlier videos that you are referring to?
  - ramses 9y ago
    They are in Coursera.
  - subbu 9y ago
    I can't find the link anymore on illinois.edu. But I was fortunate to download them. The videos are on Coursera with some minor changes. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing
jamesblonde 9y ago
Parts I and II of this EdX course by Seif Haridi are great: https://www.edx.org/course/reliable-distributed-algorithms-part-2-kthx-id2203-2x https://www.edx.org/course/reliable-distributed-algorithms-p...
y0ssar1an 9y ago
How do I know this is a Real Academic Site™ and not a trap set up by Russian hackers? <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0"> Ok, checks out.

202 points by ramses 9y ago

Was fortunate enough to take Dr. Gupta's undergraduate-level version of this class over a decade ago. To this day I still remember how enjoyable and simple he was able to make this material, despite it being actually somewhat tricky. Definitely one of the best CS lecturers UIUC had to offer at the time.

optimusclimb 9y ago
Jealous of such an experience. In my undergrad experience in the early 2000s, when things such as distributed computing came up in the higher level classes, it came with no context. The professor basically handed out, "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System", had us read it, and went straight in to minutiae. It wasn't until years later when it came full circle and I understood better how those things applied to computing problems I'd actually face. Kids have it so much better now with the amount of open courseware/material out there so they can learn from the best, and most passionate teachers, and not just have someone jam through powerpoint so they can get back to their research.

madhusudhan000 9y ago

I have taken the Cloud computing specialization in Coursera which was taught by Dr. Gupta. One of the best courses I have taken. Excited for this one. They should offer an Online masters for this, just like the data science one on Coursera

bootcat 9y ago
So this course is only to be taken by students of university ? Theres no web version ?
- dqpb 9y ago
  It seems the course primarily consists of reading/presenting/debating papers. Here's the epic reading list: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs525/sp2018/sched.htm https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs525/sp2018/sched.htm

subbu 9y ago

Are they offering video recordings of this course? Dr. Gupta's earlier cloud computing course videos were just brilliant. I still listen to them regularly.

akvar 9y ago
Would you mind posting a link to these earlier videos that you are referring to?
- ramses 9y ago
  They are in Coursera.
- subbu 9y ago
  I can't find the link anymore on illinois.edu. But I was fortunate to download them. The videos are on Coursera with some minor changes. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing

jamesblonde 9y ago

Parts I and II of this EdX course by Seif Haridi are great: https://www.edx.org/course/reliable-distributed-algorithms-part-2-kthx-id2203-2x https://www.edx.org/course/reliable-distributed-algorithms-p...

y0ssar1an 9y ago

How do I know this is a Real Academic Site™ and not a trap set up by Russian hackers? <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0"> Ok, checks out.