Guide to reliable distributed systems : building high-assurance applications and cloud-hosted services
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Guide to reliable distributed systems : building high-assurance applications and cloud-hosted services
（Texts in computer science）
Springer, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references(p.703-722) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book describes the key concepts, principles and implementation options for creating high-assurance cloud computing solutions. The guide starts with a broad technical overview and basic introduction to cloud computing, looking at the overall architecture of the cloud, client systems, the modern Internet and cloud computing data centers. It then delves into the core challenges of showing how reliability and fault-tolerance can be abstracted, how the resulting questions can be solved, and how the solutions can be leveraged to create a wide range of practical cloud applications. The author's style is practical, and the guide should be readily understandable without any special background. Concrete examples are often drawn from real-world settings to illustrate key insights. Appendices show how the most important reliability models can be formalized, describe the API of the Isis2 platform, and offer more than 80 problems at varying levels of difficulty.
Table of Contents
Part I: Computing in the Cloud
The Way of the Cloud
Client Perspective
Network Perspective
The Structure of Cloud Data Centers
Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Mode
CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture
System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication
Part II: 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 III: Applications of Reliability Techniques
Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems
Software Architectures for Group Communication
Part IV: Related Technologies
Security Options for Distributed Settings
Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems
Transactional Systems
Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols
Appendix A: Virtually Synchronous Methodology For Building Dynamic Reliable Services
Appendix B: Isis2API
Appendix C: Problems
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