Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edition)

The best review I can give for this book is this: it's OK.It's not terribly thorough, but it's easy to read. You're going to need some supplementary publications in order to fill in the gaps it leaves or just to answer the questions you will probably have popping up in your head.I'd recommend reading this before anything else, though. All the other books are so immensely difficult to actually force yourself through that this provides a great "starter" so you're better prepared for what everyone else is going to throw at you.

I use this book as a teacher, I find it very complete and simple to understand, RMI examples are fine and good to improve the learning about distributed systemps.I'm giving this book 4 stars, this book is good and perfect as an introductory learning but I have had often to complement the content using another books as well (like Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition))

This book useful for one who is wanting an introduction to distributed systems. The book covers a lot of topics and can be a very long read. The earlier chapters on networking and long and verbose. The later chapters give a good description of distributed systems concepts but doesn't dive in to deep.

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I had adopted this book to teach Distributed Systems to a senior level undergrad class. I think I may have made a mistake, not knowing before hand how hard it would be for me to read this book (despite having some background in distributed systems). The students constantly complained of it being too "Wordy" and "vague". Few generic figures and mostly all text that seemed to be a rehash of several IEEE/ACM papers without giving sufficient examples or explanation. Some times, the authors did indeed explain some concepts with examples. At other times, they just left the concepts in vague mathematical notation or arcane definitions expecting the readers to make sense of it. While the english is grammatically correct, it is written in such a stuffy academic style that I found myself having to read most paragraphs twice or thrice before I could figure out what the author was trying to say. At times, I was thinking the authors should have been lawyers instead. (If the authors are reading this .. please consider the maxim: A picture is indeed worth a thousand words). A side note: I am not averse to reading academic papers. I do that all day long. But I just don't think a textbook should be written in that style.On the pro side: This book has lots of content related to distributed systems - and that was one of the reasons I adopted it. However, what's the point if that content is unreadable? My recommendation would be other books such as Tanenbaums Distributed Systems book (it has lesser content, but more readable and suited for undergraduate level).I give it high marks for the good content, but very low marks for the style of narration and presentation.

I'm a software developer and avid reader of math and tech books.This book seems to cover a wide variety of topics in a very superficial way.A good author will keep the readers imagining and solving problems before they learn the specific topic from the book itself and the author will also have the answers for imaginative readers' probable questions (might be in the subsequent chapters).The authors of this book failed to achieve that. I'm buying "Distributed Algorithms" by Nancy A. Lynch

The book is very good and explains things clearly. A very useful book to get hold of if any of your modules cover distributed systems.

A must have for Distributed System's students!Very nice practical examples for a better understand of the theory of distributed systems.

Ho acquistato questo testo usato da affiancare ai miei studi di ingegneria informatica. Il libro è ben scritto, piacevole e con esempi sul concreto, si lascia leggere tranquillamente anche se a volte cade anche sul banale. Questo è sia un difetto per chi magari è da tanto sul settore (certi esempi possono risultare noiosi e scontati), ma anche un pregio perchè permette a tutti di addentrarsi nello studio dei sistemi distribuiti. La lingua è inglese per cui vi conviene masticarlo abbastanza bene perchè altrimenti è facile perdersi tra vocaboli tecnici e non. Ottimo anche da avere in libreria personale se siete del settore!!

good book for people interested in ds systems as it comprehensive and describes the concepts of ds in good way .,