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.

今天，几乎每个计算系统都是分布式系统的一部分。程序员、开发人员和工程师需要了解基本原则和范式，以及这些原则在现实世界中的应用。现在，国际知名专家Andrew S. Tanenbaum--与同事Martin van Steen--提出了一个完整的介绍，确定了分布式系统的七个关键原则，并提供了每个原则的大量实例。

增加了一个关于架构的全新章节，以解决组织分布式系统的原则。提供了大量关于点对点系统、网格计算和Web服务、虚拟化和应用级多播的新材料。更新了关于时钟同步、以数据为中心的一致性、基于对象的分布式系统以及文件系统和网络系统协调的材料。

适用于所有需要深入了解分布式系统的开发人员、软件工程师和建筑师。