6.824 Spring 2014 Paper Questions

6.824 Spring 2012 Paper Questions

For each paper, your assignment is two-fold. By 10PM the evening before lecture:

Submit your answer for each lecture's paper question via the submission web site, and
Submit your own question about the paper (e.g., what you find most confusing about the paper or the paper's general context/problem). You cannot use the question below. To the extent possible, during lecture we will try to answer questions submitted the evening before.

You can also upload your questions and answers using curl:

## Answer goes into lecN.txt
$ curl -F file=@lec2.txt \
       -F key=XXXXXXXX \
       http://ydmao.scripts.mit.edu/6.824/handin.py/upload
## Question goes into sqN.txt
$ curl -F file=@sq2.txt \
       -F key=XXXXXXXX \
       http://ydmao.scripts.mit.edu/6.824/handin.py/upload

Lecture 19

Building distributed systems in the real world have both technical challenges (e.g., dealing with bad data) and non-technical ones (e.g., how to structure a team). Which do you think is harder to get right? What examples can you cite from your personal experience?

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