Lecture Plan: Volume Reconstruction Infrastructure

What this document is

This page is a build plan for an instructor assembling a lecture on this unit. It gives the slide sequence, per-slide timing, the points at which figures belong, and the speaker notes that carry the argument. It is a design document, not a rendered deck: there are no slides on this page to project, and nothing here is written to be shown to learners as it stands.

A separately maintained Marp deck for this unit does exist, and it is linked at the foot of this page under Rendered deck artifacts. That deck was authored in its own right and does not follow this plan slide for slide, so treat this page as the teaching design and the Marp file as one existing implementation of it. The learner-facing material is the unit page linked under Connections.

Session profile

• Audience: technical leads and trainees operating reconstruction pipelines.
• Duration: 80 minutes lecture + 10 minutes architecture critique.
• Output: pipeline architecture diagram with release and rollback policy.

Slide-by-slide lecture plan

1. Slide 1 (2 min): Title and architecture mindset
2. Slide 2 (5 min): Why connectomics is a systems problem
3. Slide 3 (6 min): Reference architecture overview
   • Ingest, transform, inference, post-process, serving.
4. Slide 4 (6 min): Data contracts between stages
5. Slide 5 (6 min): Orchestration and idempotency
6. Slide 6 (6 min): Provenance schema design
7. Slide 7 (6 min): Storage and chunking strategies
8. Slide 8 (6 min): API/query layer for proofreading and analysis
9. Slide 9 (6 min): Release engineering for model updates
10. Slide 10 (6 min): SLOs and monitoring dashboards
11. Slide 11 (5 min): Failure modes
    • Non-determinism, provenance drift, hotspot bottlenecks.
12. Slide 12 (5 min): Cost-performance tradeoff framework
13. Slide 13 (5 min): Case study: bad release and rollback plan
14. Slide 14 (6 min): Bridge to biological interpretation units (05-07).

Figure integration points

• Primary shortlist: course/units/figures/04-volume-reconstruction-infrastructure-selected-v1.md.
• Include one pipeline diagram and one QC dashboard mockup.

Speaker notes (expert-level)

• Treat reproducibility as a first-class feature, not documentation afterthought.
• Show how region-scoped reprocessing prevents full-pipeline reruns.

Assessment and artifacts

• Deliverable: staged architecture plan with lineage fields.
• Rubric dimensions: reliability, traceability, scalability, and recovery readiness.

Connections

• Unit page: Volume Reconstruction Infrastructure
• Journal club: Technical Track Journal Club
• Dictionary: Connectomics Dictionary
• Existing module overlap: module12, module18

Rendered deck artifacts