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Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edition) (International Computer Science Series)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.36
EAN: 9780321263544
Edition: 4
ISBN: 0321263545
Label: Addison Wesley
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 944
Publication Date: May 20, 2005
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Studio: Addison Wesley
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Editorial Review:
This new edition represents a significant update of the best-selling book, incorporating and anticipating the major developments in distributed systems technology. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated, including emphasis on the Internet, intranets, and middleware. New material includes coverage of large-scale applications, fault modeling and fault tolerance, models of system execution, object-orientation, and distributed multimedia systems. Discussion of security has also been brought forward in the book and integrated with other related technologies. The book includes a new chapter on distributed multimedia systems, and also provides new material on current network technologies such as IPv6, Mobile IP, and active and wireless networks. Throughout, Java and CORBA are used as the basis for most examples. This book is designed for programmers who need to learn the principles and practice of distributed system design. Readers should have an understanding of programming and elementary computer architecture, as well as a familiarity with basic operating system concepts, but the book does not require knowledge of networks.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - I won't suggest - superficial treatment of the subject
I'm a software developer and avid reader of math and tech books.
This book seems to cover a wide variety of topics in a very superficial way.
A good author will keep the readers imagining and solving problems before they learn the specific topic from the book itself and the author will also have the answers for imaginative readers' probable questions (might be in the subsequent chapters).
The authors of this book failed to achieve that. I'm buying "Distributed Algorithms" ... Read More
Rating:  - It's alright...
The best review I can give for this book is this: it's OK.
It's not terribly thorough, but it's easy to read. You're going to need some supplementary publications in order to fill in the gaps it leaves or just to answer the questions you will probably have popping up in your head.
I'd recommend reading this before anything else, though. All the other books are so immensely difficult to actually force yourself through that this provides a great "starter" so you're better ... Read More
Rating:  - Bedtime reading!
I bought the book in few months but already knew. These book is excelente and a best seller, the concepts are shows and have several examples about distributed systems such CORBA, WEB services, RMI, etc. I really have it by my side ever. Such a distributed systems software enginerring is very good to know theirs concepts abroad this area.
Rating:  - Good book
I use this book as a teacher, I find it very complete and simple to understand, RMI examples are fine and good to improve the learning about distributed systemps.
I'm giving this book 4 stars, this book is good and perfect as an introductory learning but I have had often to complement the content using another books as well (like Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition))
Rating: - Hard to understand
+ sturdy construction
+ intro to many topics
+ problems at end of chapter have page reference of the answer
- shallow coverage of too many topics
- some key learning points are left to the student in an intro book
- poor formatting and organization
= an intro book that doesn't build enough on the foundations and tries to cover too much in this growing field
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