Distributed Systems - Principles and Paradigms (2002) torrent

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.