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CMU's Advanced Cloud Computing Class (Spring 2016)

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Seems like most of the valuable content is private. At least I couldn't access any of the lecture pdfs.

works fine for me in incognito without any shibboleth login (but my ip is also @cmu)

From the syllabus: "Lectures and projects can only be accessed by clients with a CMU IP address."

I guess that raises the question of why this is on the front page of HN where most people are not CMU students :)

Why not just take a few more specialized classes, such as distributed systems (and obviously a couple more)? What advantage would taking this class have over more traditional routes?

Mostly time saving. With Majd Sakr teaching this, I expect fair amount of distributed systems content in here.

Although if a student at CMU does have time, a better roadmap is to take the new parallel programming course, along with distributed systems class. I did this and it served me well.

I don't know for sure since I didn't design the course, but I imagine this goes more in depth than your normal undergraduate distributed systems course. At the very least, I don't remember having to read any papers in my courses except for Cryptography, and even then we didn't come close to 30 of them. It sounds like this would actually tell you more about how the services are implemented, as opposed to how you would go about using them?

It actually does. The course is designed to get in details of challenges in cloud provisioning like designing Load Balancer.

Is the course material online? If so could someone who has access share which papers they are referencing?

This would (at least to me) be the next best thing as a non-CMU student ;)

Currently taking this course. I don't know if I am allowed to share material online. Although all of these papers are well known papers in Cloud Computing. You can search for them online for open/free access. EDIT: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15719/readinglist.html

Ah very nice, thank you!

During my time at CMU, my favorite thing was that professors would occasionally teach passion courses. Although when these types of courses would pop up you'd have to take them then and there otherwise miss the opportunity all together. Scanning the course list you'd see many classes that sounded interesting but after a year or two would realize that many might never be taught during your time there.

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