CS 153: Infrastructure at Scale

Course Description

This course is designed to help students understand the unique challenges of solving infrastructure problems at scale, and is co-taught by industry practitioners Michael Abbott (ex-GM, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft) and Anjney Midha (a16z, ex-Discord), who have led teams tackling hardware and software infrastructure for hundreds of millions of people. The format of the class will include guest lectures from experts in each theme, covering a blend of both theory and real-world scenarios. Past speakers include the CEOs, CTOs and CISOs of OpenAI, FireEye, Roblox, Cloudflare, Reddit and Google. Prerequisite: CS110/ CS111. Recommended but not required: CS155.