• Lecture 1: 1/ 9/2002 Course Overview
  • Handout 1 - Course Description
• Lecture 2: 1/ 11/2002 Lift-off
  • Handout 2 - Project #1: Web robot
    • How-To: Oracle
• Lecture 3: 1/16/2002 HTTP 1.1
  • RFC2616 HTTP1.1 spec, IETF HTTP working group
  • Jeff Mogul, What's Wrong With HTTP and Why It Doesn't Matter. Invited talk at 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
• Lecture 4: 1/18/2002 TCP & Web Server Performance
  • Gaurav Banga and Peter Druschel, Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server. In 1997 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems.
• Lecture 5: 1/23/2002 Apache, CGI et. al.
  • The Conceptual Architecture of the Apache Web Server
  • The Concrete Architecture of the Apache Web Server
• Lecture 6: 1/25/2002 Servlets, JSP, WebMacro
  • Handout 3 - Project #2: Static auctions web site
    • How-To: Apache installation, Jikes, Oracle How-To, WebMacro
  • Java Servlet API, JavaOne 99, J. D. Davidson (local copy)
  • Servlet Essentials, S. Zeiger
  • Thirty Ways to Improve the Performance of Your Java Programs, Glen McCluskey
• Lecture 7: 1/30/2002 Java Reflection and Serialization
  • The Problems with JSP, Jason Hunter
  • Reactions to "The Problems with JSP", Jason Hunter
• Lecture 8: 2/1/2002 Java Beans & App Servers
• Lecture 9: 2/6/2002 Security
  • Macroscopic analyses of the infrastructure, B Huffaker, et. al.
• Lecture 10: 2/8/2002 Monitoring
  • Handout 4 - Project #3: Auctions web site
• Lecture 11: 2/13/2002 Security Papers
  • Experience with Personalization on Yahoo!, Udi Manber
  • Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity, D. Moore, G. Voelker, and S. Savage
• Lecture 12: 2/15/2002 Load Balancing
• Lecture 13: 2/20/2002 Harvest, Yield, etc.
• Lessons from Giant-Scale Services, Eric Brewer
• Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems, A. Fox and E. Brewer
• Lecture 14: 2/22/2002 JavaGroups
  • Design and Implementation of a Reliable Group Communication Toolkit for Java
• Lecture 15: 2/27/2002 Cluster Data Structures
  • Handout 5 - Project #4: Distributed auctions web site
  • Scalable, Distributed Data Structures for Internet Service Construction, Steven D. Gribble, et. al., OSDI2000
• Lecture 16: 3/1/2002 Proxy Caching
  • On the scale and performance of cooperative Web proxy caching, Alec Wolman, et. al., SOSP 99
• Lecture 17: 3/6/2002 GoToMyPC Experience
• Lecture 18: 3/8/2002 SEDA & RON
  • SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services, M. Welsh, et. al., SOSP 01
  • Reliable Overlay Networks, D. Andersen, et. al., SOSP 01
• Lecture 19: 3/13/2002 Online Marketing 101
  • Guest lecture by Bernardo de Albergaria, VP of Marketing at Expertcity
• Lecture 20: 3/15/2002 Project Presentations

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