Web Caching and Replication

Authors report a wealth of detailed information about how to implement Web caching and replication mechanisms, but more importantly, they teach one how to think about the general problem of content distribution. Softcover.

Michael Rabinovich is "one of the few research-ers who are qualified to write this book" (Pei Cao, Cisco Systems). As a leading researcher at AT&T Labs, he has closely watched current trends and state-of-the-art standards and commercial products while both battling "real-life" technical problems and participating in new research in Web caching and replication. In addition to numerous publications in the areas of distributed systems, Web performance, and transaction management, he is a co-author of the CRISP distributed proxy cache.

Oliver Spatscheck is a senior technical staff member at AT&T Labs–Research, where he has been actively involved in building AT&T's content distribution network. His research publications span the areas of security, operating systems, and CDNs. He has also been active in the IETF, working most recently on Content Distribution Internetworking. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Arizona.

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