Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems : Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)

Part I: Computing in the Cloud The Way of the Cloud Client Perspective Network Perspective The Structure of Cloud Data Centers Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Mode CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication Part II: Reliable Distributed Computing How and Why Computer Systems Fail Overcoming Failures in a Distributed System Dynamic Membership Group Communication Systems Point to Point and Multi-group Considerations The Virtual Synchrony Execution Model Consistency in Distributed Systems Part III: Applications of Reliability Techniques Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems Software Architectures for Group Communication Part IV: Related Technologies Security Options for Distributed Settings Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems Transactional Systems Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols Appendix A: Virtually Synchronous Methodology For Building Dynamic Reliable Services Appendix B: Isis2API Appendix C: Problems