Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit
by Mikito Takada
Publisher: mixu.net 2013
Description:
This text provides a more accessible introduction to distributed systems. The book brings together the ideas behind many of the more recent distributed systems - systems such as Amazon's Dynamo, Google's BigTable and MapReduce, Apache's Hadoop and so on.
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