EECS 485: Web Systems

The University of Michigan
Winter 2024

A holistic course of modern web systems and technologies, covering front end and back end. Build an Instagram clone in the first half of the semester and a Google clone in the second. Syllabus

Project 4 is released!

Congratulations on finishing the midterm! Project 4 has been released. It is due Sunday, March 31.

This Week

Lab
Slides and Demos
Recordings
Lecture
In-person
Studio recordings (supplemental)

Schedule

Day Lecture Lab Deadline
Week 1
Jan 10 - 13

L01 Introduction

Project 1 Intro
Week 2
Jan 15 - 20

L02 Static Pages

L03 Server-side Dynamic Pages

Python
Project 1 due Sun Jan 21 11:59pm
Week 3
Jan 22 - 27

L04 Sessions

L05 Encryption

Project 2 Intro and Databases
Week 4
Jan 29 - Feb 3

L06 Web Security

L07 REST APIs

Flask and Sessions
Project 2 due Sun Feb 4 11:59pm
Week 5
Feb 6 - 10

L08 Client-side Dynamic Pages

L09 Client-side Applications

P3 Intro and Rest APIs
Week 6
Feb 12 - 16

L10 Asynchronous Programming

L11 MapReduce

Asynchronous Programming and React
Week 7
Feb 19 - 23

L12 Google File System
(last lecture on midterm)

No Lecture

React Best Practices and Debugging
Project 3 due Fri Feb 23 11:59pm
Spring Break
Feb 26 - Mar 1

No lecture - Spring Break

No lecture - Spring Break

No lab
Week 8
Mar 4 - 8

No lecture

No lecture - Midterm Exam

No lab
Midterm Thu Mar 7 7:30pm
Week 9
Mar 11 - 14

L13 OS and Parallelism

L14 Networking

Project 4 Intro and MapReduce
Week 10
Mar 18 - 21

L15 Text Analysis for Web Search

L16 Link Analysis for Web Search

Multithreaded Debugging
Week 11
Mar 25 - 29

L17 Scaling Search

L18 Scaling Static Pages

No Lab
Project 4 due Sun Mar 31 11:59pm
Week 12
Apr 1 - 5

L19 Scaling Dynamic Pages

L20 Scaling Storage

Project 5 Intro and MapReduce Pipelines
Week 13
Apr 8 - 12

L21 Recommender Systems

L22 Ads and Auctions

Inverted Index Servers
Week 14
Apr 15 - 19

L23 Blockchain

L24 Dark Web

No Lab
Project 5 due Sun Apr 21 11:59pm
Week 15
Apr 22 - 26

No lecture

No lab
Final Fri
Apr 26 8am

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