March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
36h 46m
English
The objective of this chapter is to introduce distributed systems engineering and distributed systems architectures. When you have read this chapter, you will:
know the key issues that have to be considered when designing and implementing distributed software systems;
understand the client–server computing model and the layered architecture of client–server systems;
have been introduced to commonly used patterns for distributed systems architectures and know the types of system for which each architectural pattern is applicable;
understand the notion of software as a service, providing web-based access to remotely deployed application systems.
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