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Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.36
EAN: 9780130888938
Edition: US Ed
ISBN: 0130888931
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 803
Publication Date: January 15, 2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Editorial Review:
Presents a complete introduction to distributed principles and paradigms. Author identifies the seven key principles of distributed systems, and presents extensive examples of each. For all developers, software engineers, and architects who need an in-depth understanding of distributed systems.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Don't judge this book by its cover
A few reviewers of this book already noted its impenetrable prose style and descriptions lacking specifics.
While I am not a specialist in all topics described in this book, I found it to be imprecise and, occasionally, downright wrong or misleading in parts where I had specific knowledge to the contrary. Many times language would appear to be made purposefully ambiguous, as if the author did not quite know what he is talking about. This type of ambiguity may be fine in general literature, ... Read More
Rating: - Painful, but informative...
This books is, if nothing else, thorough. When you start thinking of distributed systems (or even just working with Application Servers in general), you're going to have to trudge your way through this book sooner or later in order to understand what's going on and what everyone is talking about.
It's definitely informative and you will walk away with a lot of information, but you're never going to say it was a pleasant experience.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything ... Read More
Rating:  - Arrived on time, perfect condition
It arrived before I even got around to checking the shipping status. It arrived untouched. If only my teacher was actually using the book!
Rating:  - Decent book for students
If you're expecting a "how-to" manual on writing distributed systems, this isn't it. It has an excellent coverage of some fundamental principles - I used it as a text book for a distributed systems course and found it very useful. The course and this book changed the way I think about system architecture. Some readers may find the material dry - it is, but in the end it's rewarding. It helps to have an exam at the end to drive you through this book. To the reviewer who said that it doesn't mention what's wrong ... Read More
Rating: - Good theorical book
If you buy this book expecting to learn how to do some web, rmi, corba or any other kind of distributed systems development then don't buy this one. This book is now a good source of theorical material, I'm currently using this book because of the theorical material but often I have to complement the information with other books like "Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edition)" (by: Coulouris) which has more indepth RMI practices and is also a good information source.
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