- Hardcover: 803 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (26 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130888931
- ISBN-13: 978-0130888938
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 18.4 x 3.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 634,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For courses on Distributed Systems, Distributed Operating Systems, and Advanced Operating Systems focusing on distributed systems found in departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
Distributed systems are common. Computer scientists and engineers need to understand how the principles and paradigms underlying distributed systems software and be familiar with several real world examples. No other book systematically examines the underlying principles and how they are applied to a wide variety of distributed systems with the depth and clarity of this presentation.
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Andrew Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen cover the principles, advanced concepts, and technologies of distributed systems in detail, including: communication, replication, fault tolerance, and security. Intended for use in a senior/graduate level distributed systems course or by professionals, this text systematically shows how distributed systems are designed and implemented in real systems. Written in the superb writing style of other Tanenbaum books, the material also features unique accessibility and a wide variety of real-world examples and case studies, such as NFS v4, CORBA, DCOM, Jini, and the World Wide Web.
FEATURES- Detailed coverage of seven key principles.
An introductory chapter followed by a chapter devoted to each key principle: communication, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency and replication, fault tolerance, and security, including unique comprehensive coverage of middleware models. - Four chapters devoted to state-of-the-art real-world examples of middleware.
Covers object-based systems, document-based systems, distributed file systems, and coordination-based systems including Corba, DCOM, Globe, NFS v4, Coda, the World Wide Web, and Jini. - Excellent coverage of timely, advanced distributed systems topics:
Security, payment systems, recent Internet and Web protocols, scalability, and caching and replication. - NEW—The Prentice Hall Companion Website for this book contains PowerPoint slides, figures in various file formats, and other teaching aids, and a link to the author's Web site. Please visit http://www.prenhall.com/tanenbaum.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The book's scope is how to build computer systems when networks are unreliable, latency is large, bandwidth constrained, the network is insecure, the topology changes, there are many administrators, transport is expensive, the network varies.
The book is a textbook taking you from a general background up to a solid foundation in all aspects of distributed computing. Examples are given from current and historical standards and implementations, with the pros and cons of each. Throughout there are references to the original papers and researchers allowing individual topics to be researched in more detail.
This is not a how-to-code book, instead it deals with the design constraints in the real world.
The book is a textbook taking you from a general background up to a solid foundation in all aspects of distributed computing. Examples are given from current and historical standards and implementations, with the pros and cons of each. Throughout there are references to the original papers and researchers allowing individual topics to be researched in more detail.
This is not a how-to-code book, instead it deals with the design constraints in the real world.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
...books for distributed systems theory. There are many issues presented in a clear concise and easy to understand manner and it is this fact that makes a complex topic area look very easy. A very highly recommended book for any student learning distributed systems.
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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Horribly written
9 Dec 2006
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed and learned a lot from both of Tanenbaum's OS textbooks, but this is really awful. On the one hand, the descriptions of things such as RPC are so abstract that I can't see how anyone could be expected to understand what a real RPC system would look like; on the other hand, there's not nearly enough effort made to give a picture of how the systems discussed fit into the broader context of computer science, or relate to each other.
Moreover, the book is badly written: the writing is alternately overly colloquial and overly academic in style, as if it were written by someone very smart, but for whom English is a second language.
Moreover, the book is badly written: the writing is alternately overly colloquial and overly academic in style, as if it were written by someone very smart, but for whom English is a second language.
30 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Yikes! Avoid this one...
3 Jun 2005
Format:Hardcover
I agree with another reviewer: this book is not worth reading for its prose. The cover got my hopes up--perhaps this would be an irreverant, clever review of the many mistakes and learnings as we have explored the strange new world of distributed computing over the last several years. Something like Gregory Pfister's excellent "In Search of Clusters" (ASIN 0138997098).
Instead, this is a very turgid, encyclopedic survey of the topic, without much to guide the reader. For instance, distributed object-based systems are very old, why doesn't Tanenbaum mention their myriad problems? NFS, with its attempt to make remote filesystems look local, and extensive kernel hooks, can be very painful to use and operate. You would not want to write a distributed file system like NFS today! How was that not mentioned? Instead, this book treats all distributed systems as if they had equal worth and utility, with dry comparisons of features, and no sense of what the core lessons of distributed computing have been.
This is obviously one book in a chain aimed at the academic market. Perhaps it has a place there, but I wouldn't want to be a in a class that used this book.
Instead, this is a very turgid, encyclopedic survey of the topic, without much to guide the reader. For instance, distributed object-based systems are very old, why doesn't Tanenbaum mention their myriad problems? NFS, with its attempt to make remote filesystems look local, and extensive kernel hooks, can be very painful to use and operate. You would not want to write a distributed file system like NFS today! How was that not mentioned? Instead, this book treats all distributed systems as if they had equal worth and utility, with dry comparisons of features, and no sense of what the core lessons of distributed computing have been.
This is obviously one book in a chain aimed at the academic market. Perhaps it has a place there, but I wouldn't want to be a in a class that used this book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good theorical book
16 Mar 2007
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If you buy this book expecting to learn how to do some web, rmi, corba or any other kind of distributed systems development then don't buy this one. This book is now a good source of theorical material, I'm currently using this book because of the theorical material but often I have to complement the information with other books like "Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edition)" (by: Coulouris) which has more indepth RMI practices and is also a good information source.
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