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Can somebody recommend some good books on building distributed systems, both introductory and more advanced?

by rrc 14y ago

Avalaxy 14y ago
"Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions" is a classic for messaging. It's pretty advanced I guess, but beginners can understand it too.
shykes 14y ago
"The Systems Bible", also known as Systemantics, is a classic and highly recommended. It's probably not what you expect: it covers systems in general, and large complex systems in particular. It's not specific to computer systems let alone any particular flavor of computer system - these are rules which apply to all systems, from a municipal garbage collection program to a supertanker. Yet if you've ever dealt with a real-world distributed system you'll find it surprisingly relevant and timeless.
rdtsc 14y ago
http://learnyousomeerlang.com http://learnyousomeerlang.com It is also free. After learning the syntax, check out these chapters * "Designing a Concurrent Application" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/designing-a-concurrent-application http://learnyousomeerlang.com/designing-a-concurrent-applica... * "Buckets of Sockets" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/buckets-of-sockets http://learnyousomeerlang.com/buckets-of-sockets * "Distribunomicon" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon * "Distributed OTP Applications" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distributed-otp-applications http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distributed-otp-applications
DennisP 14y ago
I suspect Level 4 is to read Distributed Algorithms by Nancy Lynch, who won the Knuth Prize for this stuff. A shorter book that looks good is Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, by Sukumar Ghosh. I recently bought them both but haven't tackled them yet.
SkyMarshal 14y ago
Distributed Systems: Principals and Paradigms, by Andrew Tannenbaum (Minix creator, Linus Torvald's OS newsgroup nemesis). 1. http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Principles-Paradigms-Edition/dp/0132392275 http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Principles-Paradig...

Can somebody recommend some good books on building distributed systems, both introductory and more advanced?

by rrc 14y ago

Can somebody recommend some good books on building distributed systems, both introductory and more advanced?

"Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions" is a classic for messaging. It's pretty advanced I guess, but beginners can understand it too.

shykes 14y ago

"The Systems Bible", also known as Systemantics, is a classic and highly recommended. It's probably not what you expect: it covers systems in general, and large complex systems in particular. It's not specific to computer systems let alone any particular flavor of computer system - these are rules which apply to all systems, from a municipal garbage collection program to a supertanker. Yet if you've ever dealt with a real-world distributed system you'll find it surprisingly relevant and timeless.

rdtsc 14y ago

http://learnyousomeerlang.com http://learnyousomeerlang.com It is also free. After learning the syntax, check out these chapters * "Designing a Concurrent Application" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/designing-a-concurrent-application http://learnyousomeerlang.com/designing-a-concurrent-applica... * "Buckets of Sockets" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/buckets-of-sockets http://learnyousomeerlang.com/buckets-of-sockets * "Distribunomicon" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distribunomicon * "Distributed OTP Applications" http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distributed-otp-applications http://learnyousomeerlang.com/distributed-otp-applications

DennisP 14y ago

I suspect Level 4 is to read Distributed Algorithms by Nancy Lynch, who won the Knuth Prize for this stuff. A shorter book that looks good is Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, by Sukumar Ghosh. I recently bought them both but haven't tackled them yet.

SkyMarshal 14y ago

Distributed Systems: Principals and Paradigms, by Andrew Tannenbaum (Minix creator, Linus Torvald's OS newsgroup nemesis). 1. http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Principles-Paradigms-Edition/dp/0132392275 http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Systems-Principles-Paradig...