Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms

✍ Scribed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Maarten van Steen

• Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 705
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Virtually every computing system today is part of a distributed system. Programmers, developers, and engineers need to understand the underlying principles and paradigms as well as the real-world application of those principles. Now, internationally renowned expert Andrew S. Tanenbaum – with colleague Martin van Steen – presents a complete introduction that identifies the seven key principles of distributed systems, with extensive examples of each.

Adds a completely new chapter on architecture to address the principle of organizing distributed systems. Provides extensive new material on peer-to-peer systems, grid computing and Web services, virtualization, and application-level multicasting. Updates material on clock synchronization, data-centric consistency, object-based distributed systems, and file systems and Web systems coordination.

For all developers, software engineers, and architects who need an in-depth understanding of distributed systems.

✦ Table of Contents

01 - Introduction
02 - ARCHITECTURES
03 - PROCESSES
04 - COMMUNICATION
05 - NAMING
06 - SYNCHRONIZATION
07 - CONSISTENCY AND REPLICATION
08 - FAULT TOLERANCE
09 - SECURITY
10 - DISTRIBUTED OBJECT-BASED SYSTEMS
11 - DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS
12 - DISTRIBUTED WEB-BASED SYSTEMS
13 - DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION-BASED SYSTEMS
14 - SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING AND BIBLIOGRAPHY