May 2019
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
9h 1m
English
Chapter 15, “Hardware Fundamentals,” runs through basic bottlenecks in hardware and includes a brief discussion of the components that make up modern computers.
In Chapter 16, “Software Fundamentals,” we discuss some fundamentals of software design as it relates to quickly and reliably processing data. We’ll take a look at IO eflciency as well as guarantees related to consistency.
Chapter 17, “Software Architecture,” contains a higher-level overview of architectural patterns used in distributed systems.
Chapter 18, “The CAP Theorem,” goes into the trade-offs between availability, consistency, and partition tolerance.
Finally, Chapter 19, “Logical Network Topological Nodes,” provides a toolkit. It describes ...
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