Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications

by Kenneth P. Birman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137195842
• ISBN13: 9780137195848
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 591 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent marriage of theory and practice

Kenneth Birman is one of the best at bringing together an academic thoroughness with a real-world practicality. He explains concepts well. In addition, many parts of the book stand on their own quite well. That is, you can skip chapters that are not relevant to your current work, and still glean tremendous insight into the issues and ideas presented. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in understanding how to implement distributed applications or replication strategies.

Excellent reference for reliable distributed computing

Ken Birman is one of the foremost academic experts in this still young field. This book will give you a good understanding of the different techniques available for ensuring reliable communications between machines: from transactions to group communication systems.It is *not* a book for novicies, though his style is still quite readable. It's a very dense text - not much whitespace or many diagrams.