Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems: Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Service

Part I: Computing in the Cloud

The Way of the Cloud

Client Perspective

Network Perspective

The Structure of Cloud Data Centers

Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Mode

CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture

System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication

Part II: Reliable Distributed Computing

How and Why Computer Systems Fail

Overcoming Failures in a Distributed System

Dynamic Membership

Group Communication Systems

Point to Point and Multi-group Considerations

The Virtual Synchrony Execution Model

Consistency in Distributed Systems

Part III: Applications of Reliability Techniques

Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems

Software Architectures for Group Communication

Part IV: Related Technologies

Security Options for Distributed Settings

Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems

Transactional Systems

Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols

Appendix A: Virtually Synchronous Methodology For Building Dynamic Reliable Services

Appendix B: Isis2API

Appendix C: Problems