MIT 6.033 (Computer System Engineering) covers 4 parts: Operating Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, and Security.

This is the course note for Part IV: Security. And in this section, we mainly focus on common pitfalls in the security of computer systems, and how to combat them.

To build a secure system, we need to be clear about two aspects:

1. security policy (goal)
2. threat model (assumptions on adversaries)

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MIT 6.033 (Computer System Engineering) covers 4 parts: Operating Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, and Security.

This is the course note for Part III: Distributed Systems. And in this section, we mainly focus on: How reliable, usable distributed systems are able to be built on top of an unreliable network.

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MIT 6.033 (Computer System Engineering) covers 4 parts: Operating Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, and Security.

This is the course note for Part II: Networking. And in this section, we mainly focus on: how the Internet is designed to scale and its various applications.

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MIT 6.033 (Computer System Engineering) covers 4 parts: Operating Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, and Security.

This is the course note for Part I: Operating Systems. And in this section, we mainly focus on:

• How common design patterns in computer system — such as abstraction and modularity — are used to limit complexity.
• How operating systems use virtualization and abstraction to enforce modularity.

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Hi!

Let's read the Chapter 01: Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications of Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

It introduces the terminology and approach that we are going to use throughout the book, and it also explores some fundamental ways of thinking about data-intensive applications: general properties (nonfunctional requirements) such as reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

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