you can learn anything in two weeks. if this makes you upset it's only because the reason you learn things is for the approval of others

— kache (@yacineMTB) September 25, 2024

i have a distributed systems exam in exactly 2 weeks, October 10th  
 
this is a famously hard course at UIUC and i want to ace this midterm  
 

 
the syllabus for this exam includes -  
1. mapreduce  
2. hadoop  
3. gossip protocols  
4. failure detectors  
5. memberships  
6. grids  
7. p2p systems - chord, gnutella, pastry, fastrack, bittorrent, kelips, napster  
8. cassandra + key/value stores  
9. time and ordering  
10. misc. cloud computing topics

 
 
 

idek what the format of the exam is yet, so i'm going to prep for everything  
 
for the next 2 weeks, i'm going to spend a bunch of time trying to master these topics and going to document/make notes about each topic here   
 
stay tuned for updates to this page

 
09/27/2024 ->