Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 The Way of the Cloud
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   Chapter 3 Client Perspective
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   Chapter 4 Network Perspective
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   Chapter 5 The Structure of Cloud Data Centers
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   Chapter 6 Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Model
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   Chapter 7 CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture
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   Chapter 8 System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication
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    Chapter 9 How and Why Computer Systems Fail
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    Chapter 10 Overcoming Failures in a Distributed System
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    Chapter 11 Dynamic Membership
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    Chapter 12 Group Communication Systems
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    Chapter 13 Point to Point and Multi-group Considerations
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    Chapter 14 The Virtual Synchrony Execution Model
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    Chapter 15 Consistency in Distributed Systems
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    Chapter 16 Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems
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    Chapter 17 Software Architectures for Group Communication
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    Chapter 18 Security Options for Distributed Settings
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    Chapter 19 Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems
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    Chapter 20 Transactional Systems
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    Chapter 21 Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols
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    Chapter 22 Appendix A: Virtually Synchronous Methodology for Building Dynamic Reliable Services
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    Chapter 23 Appendix B: Isis 2 API
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    Chapter 24 Appendix C: Problems