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.