Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 2nd Edition

Andrew S. Tanenbaum,Maarten Van Steen

ISBN 10: 8120334981 / ISBN 13: 9788120334984

Published by Prentice Hall of India, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 2nd Edition
• Publisher: Prentice Hall of India
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8120334981
• ISBN 13: 9788120334984
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Published by Prentice Hall of India,2nd edition,Eastern Economy Edition,illustrations in black and white

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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.