The topics that will be covered on the final exam will include:

• Protocols, framing, parsing, layering
• Sockets programming, IP, DNS
• HTTP and web
• Storage
• RPCs
• Time and causality
• Two-phase commit and the RAFT protocol (including leader election and log recovery after leader failure)
• Consensus, replicated state machines
• Locking, concurrency control, locking, recovery
• Performance at scale
• CDNs
• P2P networks, Chord, DHTs
• Overlay networks
• Datacenters
• Research papers
  • Polaris
  • VMware
  • RAFT
  • UCSD Fat-tree paper