Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems: Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services

by Kenneth P. Birman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447124154
• ISBN13: 9781447124153
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 730 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"