This book describes the key concepts, principles and implementation options for creating high-assurance cloud computing solutions. The guide starts with a broad technical overview and basic introduction to cloud computing, looking at the overall architecture of the cloud, client systems, the modern Internet and cloud computing data centers. It then delves into the core challenges of showing how reliability and fault-tolerance can be abstracted, how the resulting questions can be solved, and how the solutions can be leveraged to create a wide range of practical cloud applications. The author’s style is practical, and the guide should be readily understandable without any special background. Concrete examples are often drawn from real-world settings to illustrate key insights. Appendices show how the most important reliability models can be formalized, describe the API of the Isis2 platform, and offer more than 80 problems at varying levels of difficulty.
Author(s): Kenneth P. Birman
Series: Texts in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2012
Language: English
Commentary: +bank pages + color bookmarks
Pages: 753
Tags: Computer System Implementation; Operating Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Performance and Reliability
Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Introduction....Pages 1-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Way of the Cloud....Pages 45-67
Client Perspective....Pages 69-100
Network Perspective....Pages 101-143
The Structure of Cloud Data Centers....Pages 145-183
Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Model....Pages 185-247
CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture....Pages 249-269
System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication....Pages 271-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-286
How and Why Computer Systems Fail....Pages 287-299
Overcoming Failures in a Distributed System....Pages 301-337
Dynamic Membership....Pages 339-367
Group Communication Systems....Pages 369-405
Point to Point and Multi-group Considerations....Pages 407-418
The Virtual Synchrony Execution Model....Pages 419-455
Consistency in Distributed Systems....Pages 457-470
Front Matter....Pages 471-471
Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems....Pages 473-508
Software Architectures for Group Communication....Pages 509-539
Front Matter....Pages 541-541
Security Options for Distributed Settings....Pages 543-569
Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems....Pages 571-586
Transactional Systems....Pages 587-607
Front Matter....Pages 541-541
Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols....Pages 609-634
Appendix A: Virtually Synchronous Methodology for Building Dynamic Reliable Services....Pages 635-671
Appendix B: Isis 2 API....Pages 673-680
Appendix C: Problems....Pages 681-701
Back Matter....Pages 703-730
