Reliable distributed systems : technologies, Web services, and applications

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Reliable distributed systems : technologies, Web services, and applications

Kenneth P. Birman

Springer, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [629]-659) and index

Based on Building secure and reliable network applications, Manning, Greenwich, c1996

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Description

Explains fault tolerance in clear terms, with concrete examples drawn from real-world settings Highly practical focus aimed at building "mission-critical" networked applications that remain secure

Table of Contents

* Preface * Introduction * A User's Guide to This Book * Trademarks * Part I: Basic Distributed Computing Technologies * Fundamentals * Basic Communication Services * High Assurance Communication * Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Model * Styles of Client/Server Computing * CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture * System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication * Part II: Web Technologies * The World Wide Web * Major Web Technologies * Web Services * Related Internet Technologies * Platform Technologies * Part III: Reliable Distributed Computing * How and Why Computer Systems Fail * Overcoming Failures in a Distributed System * Dynamic Membership * Group Communication Systems * Point to Point and Multi-group Considerations * The Virtual Synchrony Execution Model * Consistency in Distributed Systems * Part IV: Applications of Reliability Techniques * Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems * Software Architectures for Group Communication * Part V: Related Technologies * Security Options for Distributed Settings * Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems * Transactional Systems * Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols * Prospects for Building Highly Assured Web Services * Other Distributed and Transactional Systems * Appendix: Problems * Bibliography * Index

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