Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition)

About this book

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.