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Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems: Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services

By Kenneth P. Birman

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2012
ISBN
1447124154, 9781447124153
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4471-2416-0
ISSN
1868-0941
Google Books ID
yG9y-VMluwYC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (7952675 bytes)
Series
Texts in Computer Science
Pages
753\753
Topic
Computers
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Computer System Implementation; Operating Systems;

Description

This book describes the key concepts, principles and implementation options for creating high-assurance cloud computing solutions. The guide starts with a broad technical overview and basic introduction to cloud computing, looking at the overall architecture of the cloud, client systems, the modern Internet and cloud computing data centers. It then delves into the core challenges of showing how reliability and fault-tolerance can be abstracted, how the resulting questions can be solved, and how the solutions can be leveraged to create a wide range of practical cloud applications. The author’s style is practical, and the guide should be readily understandable without any special background. Concrete examples are often drawn from real-world settings to illustrate key insights. Appendices show how the most important reliability models can be formalized, describe the API of the Isis2 platform, and offer more than 80 problems at varying levels of difficulty.

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