Overview
- Describes the key concepts, principles and implementation options for creating high-assurance cloud computing solutions
- Written in a clear, easy-to-understand style, with concrete examples drawn from real-world settings
- Includes more than 80 problems at varying levels of difficulty
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Applications of Reliability Techniques
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Kenneth P. Birman is an ACM Fellow and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He received the 2009 IEEE Tsukomo Kanai Award for his fundamental and practical contributions to distributed computing, fault tolerance, reliability and distributed systems management, and has authored nearly 200 journal and conference papers in the area. Examples of settings in which his work has been applied include the communications infrastructure of the NYSE, the Swiss Stock Exchange, the US Navy's AEGIS warship, the French air-traffic control system, and a wide range of cutting edge cloud-computing products.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems
Book Subtitle: Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services
Authors: Kenneth P. Birman
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2416-0
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2415-3Published: 15 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5842-4Published: 22 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2416-0Published: 13 January 2012
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 730
Topics: Computer System Implementation, Operating Systems, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Performance and Reliability