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| Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition) | 
| Authors: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten Van Steen
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $118.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (19 reviews)
Sales Rank: 47439
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 704
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0132392275
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.4476
EAN: 9780132392273
ASIN: 0132392275
Publication Date: October 12, 2006
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Product Description
Virtually every computing system today is part of a distributed system. Programmers, developers, and engineers need to understand the underlying principles and paradigms as well as the real-world application of those principles. Now, internationally renowned expert Andrew S. Tanenbaum ? with colleague Martin van Steen ? presents a complete introduction that identifies the seven key principles of distributed systems, with extensive examples of each. Adds a completely new chapter on architecture to address the principle of organizing distributed systems. Provides extensive new material on peer-to-peer systems, grid computing and Web services, virtualization, and application-level multicasting. Updates material on clock synchronization, data-centric consistency, object-based distributed systems, and file systems and Web systems coordination. For all developers, software engineers, and architects who need an in-depth understanding of distributed systems.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Distributed Systems Book October 27, 2008
Book was in very good condition. Deliveriy was in time. I am totally satisfied with this product.
 A good reference for distributed systems October 11, 2008
I am using this book as a reference for a distributed systems course. I find the book readable and full of valuable information covering the subject very well. What it is lacking is covering some LAB material, the programming aspects of the subject; for that I had to use another book.
In summary, the book covers the subject very well from the theoretical stand point, but does not provide hands on tutorial.
 Don't judge this book by its cover April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A few reviewers of this book already noted its impenetrable prose style and descriptions lacking specifics.
While I am not a specialist in all topics described in this book, I found it to be imprecise and, occasionally, downright wrong or misleading in parts where I had specific knowledge to the contrary. Many times language would appear to be made purposefully ambiguous, as if the author did not quite know what he is talking about. This type of ambiguity may be fine in general literature, but a presumably scientific textbook talking about logical and structured discipline should not be so written.
This book was a required text for my graduate course. I certainly would not have purchased it voluntarily. I find that after reading most of it I gained no useful information or any additional insights that were not otherwise known or available to me.
Add to that bad editing that left the book with a fair amount of typos, grammatical and style errors and the end result is not great.
The cover design is great, though.
 Painful, but informative... March 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This books is, if nothing else, thorough. When you start thinking of distributed systems (or even just working with Application Servers in general), you're going to have to trudge your way through this book sooner or later in order to understand what's going on and what everyone is talking about.
It's definitely informative and you will walk away with a lot of information, but you're never going to say it was a pleasant experience.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything out there written any better than this.
Arrived on time, perfect condition March 1, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It arrived before I even got around to checking the shipping status. It arrived untouched. If only my teacher was actually using the book!
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