September 1992
Intermediate to advanced
1070 pages
41h 48m
English
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: PARERGA UND PARALIPOMENA
The purpose of this book is to give you an understanding of how large, distributed, heterogeneous computer systems can be made to work reliably. In contrast to the often complex methods of distributed computing, it presents a distributed system application development approach that can be used by mere mortals. Why then doesn’t the title use a term like distributed systems, high reliability, interoperability, or client-server? Why use something as prosaic as transaction processing, a term that for many people denotes old-fashioned, batch-oriented, mainframe-minded data processing?
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