Syllabus - Data Processing in Cloud

Spring 2021: CS686-01 & CS686-04: Data Processing in Cloud

Spring 2021: CS486-01: Data Processing in Cloud (cross-listed with CS686-04)

The Basics

Teaching Staff
- Instructor: Haden (Hooyeon) Lee
- TAs: Jie Liu & Hrishikesh Mula
Virtual Office Hours
- Instructor: TBA & By appopintments
- Jie: Wed & Fri 4pm-5pm
- Hrishikesh: Wed & Fri 1pm-2pm
Sections: We have two sections and the only difference is the class meeting time.
- CS686-01: MWF 1pm-2:05pm
- CS686-04: MWF 4pm-5:05pm
- CS486-01: MWF 4pm-5:05pm
- Synchronous (live) lectures on Mondays
- Asynchronous (recorded) lectures & quizzes on Wednesdays & Fridays
- Note: CS486 students must read this section later in the syllabus.
Prerequisites (for CS686): A grade of B- or better in CS 601 AND CS 673 (Prerequisites may be exempted upon instructor's permission)
Textbook: No textbook is required, but there will be required readings and videos.

There is no textbook for this course. However, there are required readings and videos — links of these materials will be distributed along with lecture notes.
Here are useful resources (you’ll want to refer to these while working on labs/projects):
- Protocol Buffers https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers
- Gradle https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/userguide.html
- Google Dataflow Documentation https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/
- Apache Beam Java SDK Documentation https://beam.apache.org/documentation/sdks/java/
- Google BigQuery Documentation https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/
- “Standard SQL” syntax guide https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/query-syntax
- Relevant references (including the ones above) will be included in lecture slides / assignments for your convenience.

Email 📧
- Always include "CS686" in the subject (without a space) to help email filters work better.
Zoom 🎙️ (& possibly Discord)
- We'll use Zoom for synchronous sessions. In case of Zoom outages, we may use Discord.