Lectures

September 27, 2025

• Cloud introductory concepts (R. Lachaize) [pdf]

• Failures in the Cloud (T. Ropars) [pdf]

• [Paper to read for next session (October 3)]:

  • [OSDI 2020] “Protean: VM Allocation Service at Scale”, by Harady et al. [pdf]
  • Group preparing a presentation: Lastname first letter in [A-I]

October 3, 2025

• End of previous lecture on cloud introductory concepts (R. Lachaize)

• Cloud building blocks (R. Lachaize) [pdf]

• Cloud native infrastructure - Part 1 (R. Lachaize) [pdf]

• Paper discussion: Protean: VM Allocation Service at Scale

• [Paper to read for next session (October 10)]:

  • [CACM 2013] “Replicated Data consistency explained through Baseball”, by Doug Terry [pdf]
  • Group preparing a presentation: Lastname first letter in [J-Z]

October 10, 2025

• Replication for fault tolerance in the Cloud (T. Ropars) [pdf]

• End of previous lecture on cloud building blocks (R. Lachaize)

• Cloud native infrastructure - Part 1 (R. Lachaize) [pdf] (Note: updated version of the pdf file, with bonus slides in the end)

• Cloud native infrastructure - Part 2 (R. Lachaize) [pdf]

• [Paper to read for next session (October 17)]:

  • [CACM 2016] “Borg, omega, and kubernetes”, by Burns et al. [pdf]
  • Group preparing a presentation: Lastname first letter in [A-I]

October 17, 2025

• Continuation of previous lecture on cloud native infrastructure (R. Lachaize)
• Continuation of previous lecture on replication (T. Ropars)

October 24, 2025

• Lab session: Discovering Kubernetes through K3s

• [Paper to read for next session (November 7)]:

  • [NSDI 2024] “Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal”. Wydrowski et al. [pdf]
  • Group preparing a presentation: Lastname first letter in [J-Z]

November 7, 2025

• Continuation of previous lecture on replication (T. Ropars)

November 14, 2025

• Lab assignment on GCP

• [Paper to read for next session (November 21)]:

  • [ATC 2022] “CRISP: Critical Path Analysis of Large-Scale Microservice Architectures”, by Zhang et al. [pdf]
  • Group preparing a presentation: Lastname first letter in [A-I]

November 21, 2025

• Continuation of previous lecture on cloud native infrastructure (R. Lachaize)

• Microservices (T. Ropars) [pdf]

• [Paper to read for next session (December 5)]:

  • [HPCA 2021] “Chasing Carbon: The Elusive Environmental Footprint of Computing”, by Gupta et al. [pdf]
  • Group preparing a presentation: Lastname first letter in [J-Z]

December 5, 2025

• Carbon footprint of datacenters (T. Ropars) [pdf]

• [Paper to read for next session (December 12)]:

  • [CACM 2021] “What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing." Schleier-Smith et al. [pdf]
  • Group preparing a presentation: Lastname first letter in [A-I]

December 12, 2025

• Serverless cloud platforms (R. Lachaize) [pdf]
• Cloud storage (R. Lachaize) [pdf]

December 19, 2025

• Lab session: Continuous delivery pipeline with Kubernetes

• [Paper to read for next session (January 9)]:

  • [FAST 2025] “Cloudscape: A Study of Storage Services in Modern Cloud Architectures”, by Satija et al. [pdf]
  • Group preparing a presentation: Lastname first letter in [J-Z]