CS244b meetups

These optional informal meetups are an opportunity for students to interact, exchange ideas, and potentially form project teams. The meetings will not be recorded, and the course staff will not attend except might drop in the first day to make sure everything is working.

• Wednesday, April 8, 5pm-6pm: underlying technology interests

  • Replication and fault tolerance - Room A

  • Scalability and performance - Room B

  • Privacy and Security - Room C

  • Decentralized, peer-to-peer, federated, and blockchain systems - Room D

  • Consistency, CRDTs, efficient reconciliation algorithms - Room E

  • Just social (chat with classmates about anything and build rapport before building a team) - Room F

• Thursday, April 9, 6pm-7pm: programming language of choice

  • C++ - Room A

  • go - Room B

  • Java - Room C

  • Python - Room D

  • Functional languages (Haskell, Scala, …) - Room E

  • Other languages - Room F

• Friday, April 10, 4pm-5pm: type of software artifact

  • Tools for distributed system development (profiling, debugging, tracing, simulation)- Room A

  • Distributed applications for end-users (e.g., better remote collaboration tools)- Room B

  • Databases and storage systems - Room C

  • Libraries, middleware, network protocols - Room D

  • Embedded systems, resource constrained devices, IoT - Room E

  • Just social - Room F