ECE 568: Engineering Robust Server Software

This class is aimed at graduate students and seniors/juniors who are strong/competent programmers.  Graduate students should have taken ECE 551 and ECE 550, and be in (or have already taken) ECE 650 [or have equivalent background].  Undergraduates should have had CS 308, ECE/CS 250, and be in (or have already taken) Networking, and Databases.  

I will assume you are a completely capable programmer at the start of this course. 

Course Resources

• We will be using Piazza for class discussions/questions etc. I will also post various announcements, assignment corrections/clarifications, and so forth here.
• The course syllabus (Spring 2018)
• OIT's vcm site, where you will obtain your VM. Details of specific provisioning requirements coming soon.
• Recommended list of package to install on your VM: gcc g++ make valgrind emacs screen git postgresql-9.5 python  python3-pip libssl-dev libxerces-c-dev libpqxx-dev manpages-posix-dev
• A quick intro to Python
• The Django Tutorial is here
• The midterm from 2017.

Readings:

• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119
• http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/97052/How-To-Survive-a-Ground-Up-Rewrite-Without-Losing-Your-Sanity.aspx
• https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007

Homework Assignments

1. Event RSVP Website
2. Caching Web Proxy
3. Security Analysis of Another Group's Hwk 1+2
4. Scalable "Exchange Matching" server
5. Project description .

Lectures

This is what I expect for a schedule, but (except for exam dates) is subject to change: