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Concurrency and Scalability for Distributed Systems
In many systems, scalability becomes the primary driver as the user base grows. Attractive features and high utility breed success, which brings more requests to handle and more data to manage. But organizations reach a tipping point when design decisions that made sense under light loads suddenly b.... -
Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams: Navigating the Future of Work
The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires.... -
The Art of Immutable Architecture: Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems
Author Michael L. Perry
This book teaches you how to evaluate a distributed system from the perspective of immutable objects. You will understand the problems in existing designs, know how to make small modifications to correct those problems, and learn to apply the principles of immutable archi....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Distributed Tracing in Practice
Author Rebecca Isaacs , Ben Sigelman , Jonathan Mace , Daniel Spoonhower , Austin Parker
Most applications today are distributed in some fashion. Monitoring the health and performance of these distributed architectures requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring applications—especially those that use microse....
Release Date 2020/06 -
VFD Challenges for Shipboard Electrical Power System Design
Author Mohammed M. Islam
An in-depth exploration of shipboard power generation and distribution system design that utilizes variable frequency drivesThe variable frequency drive (VFD) application is a proven technology for shore-based applications. However, shore-based VFDs often are unsui....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Alexander Dean , Valentin Crettaz
Event Streams in Action teaches you techniques for aggregating, storing, and processing event streams using the unified log processing pattern. In this hands-on guide, you’ll discover important application designs like the lambda architecture, stream aggregation, a....
Release Date 2019/05 -
Efficient Multirate Teletraffic Loss Models Beyond Erlang
Author Michael D. Logothetis , Ioannis D. Moscholios
A comprehensive study in efficient multi-rate teletraffic loss models used for designing, performance analysis, and optimization of systems and networksEfficient Multirate Teletraffic Loss Models Beyond Erlang is an easy-to-read book filled with numerous efficient ....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author Yuri Shkuro
Understand how to apply distributed tracing to microservices-based architecturesKey FeaturesA thorough conceptual introduction to distributed tracing An exploration of the most important open standards in the space A how-to guide for code instrumentation and operat....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Sigma-Delta Converters: Practical Design Guide, 2nd Edition
Author Jose M. de la Rosa
Thoroughly revised and expanded to help readers systematically increase their knowledge and insight about Sigma-Delta ModulatorsSigma-Delta Modulators (SDMs) have become one of the best choices for the implementation of analog/digital interfaces of electronic syste....
Release Date 2018/11 -
Distributed Systems Observability
Author Cindy Sridharan
Network infrastructure is in the midst of a paradigm shift. As systems become more distributed, methods for building and operating them are rapidly evolving—and that makes visibility into your services and infrastructure more important than ever. In this practical ....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author Dr. James Aweya
A practicing engineer's inclusive review of communication systems based on shared-bus and shared-memory switch/router architecturesThis book delves into the inner workings of router and switch design in a comprehensive manner that is accessible to a broad audience....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Michel Raynal , Gadi Taubenfeld
Computers and computer networks are one of the most incredible inventions of the 20th century, having an ever-expanding role in our daily lives by enabling complex human activities in areas such as entertainment, education, and commerce. One of the most challenging....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Hemant Taneja , Kevin Maney
For more than a century, economies of scale made the corporation an ideal engine of business. However, the emergence of platforms and technologies that can be rented as needed have eroded the relationship between fixed costs and output that defined economies of sca....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Author Brendan Burns
Without established design patterns to guide them, developers have had to build distributed systems from scratch, and most of these systems are very unique indeed. Today, the increasing use of containers has paved the way for core distributed system patterns and reu....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations
Author Martin Liggins II , James Llinas , Chee-Yee Chong , David Hall
With the recent proliferation of service-oriented architectures (SOA), cloud computing technologies, and distributed-interconnected systems, distributed fusion is taking on a larger role in a variety of applications—from environmental monitoring and crisis managemen....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Qurban A. Memon
For many civilian, security, and military applications, distributed and networked coordination offers a more promising alternative to centralized command and control in terms of scalability, flexibility, and robustness. It also introduces its own challenges. Distrib....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Effective Multi-Tenant Distributed Systems
Author Sean Suchter , Chad Carson
Organizations are eager to capitalize on real-time data analysis, move beyond batch processing for time-critical insights, and excel at big data in a predictable, reliable way. But performance has been an issue for distributed systems like Hadoop, especially when t....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Monitoring Distributed Systems
Author Betsy Beyer , Rob Ewaschuk
Monitoring is an essential part of a modern production system. If you can’t monitor a service, you don’t know what’s happening, and if you’re blind to what’s happening, your service can’t be reliable. In this excerpt from O’Reilly’s book Site Reliability Engineerin....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Ignacio Julio García Zuazola , Enrique Onieva , Unai Hernandez-Jayo , Asier Perallo
The book provides a systematic overview of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). First, it includes an insight into the reference architectures developed within the main EU research projects. Then, it delves into each of the layers of such architectures, from p....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition
Author Sukumar Ghosh
Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, Second Edition provides a balanced and straightforward treatment of the underlying theory and practical applications of distributed computing. As in the previous version, the language is kept as unobscured as possible—cl....
Release Date 2015/09 -
The Next Generation of Distributed IBM CICS
Author Ashwini Deshpande , Nageswararao V Gokavarapu , Prashanth Bhat , Janaki Sundar , Rag
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes IBM TXSeries® for Multiplatforms, which is the premier IBM distributed transaction processing software for business-critical applications. Before describing distributed transaction processing in general, we introduce the mos....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Introduction to Lattice Theory with Computer Science Applications
Author Vijay K. Garg
A computational perspective on partial order and lattice theory, focusing on algorithms and their applicationsThis book provides a uniform treatment of the theory and applications of lattice theory. The applications covered include tracking dependency in distribute....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Large-scale Distributed Systems and Energy Efficiency: A Holistic View
Author Jean-Marc Pierson
Addresses innovations in technology relating to the energy efficiency of a wide variety of contemporary computer systems and networksWith concerns about global energy consumption at an all-time high, improving computer networks energy efficiency is becoming an incre....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology
Author Sergio Rajsbaum , Dmitry Kozlov , Maurice Herlihy
Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology describes techniques for analyzing distributed algorithms based on award winning combinatorial topology research. The authors present a solid theoretical foundation relevant to many real systems reliant on paralle....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Large Scale Network-Centric Distributed Systems
Author Albert Y. Zomaya , Hamid Sarbazi-Azad
A highly accessible reference offering a broad range of topics and insights on large scale network-centric distributed systemsEvolving from the fields of high-performance computing and networking, large scale network-centric distributed systems continues to grow as ....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Video Systems in an IT Environment, 2nd Edition
Author Al Kovalick
Audio/Video (AV) systems and Information Technology (IT) have collided. IT is being leveraged to create compelling networked media and file-based workflows. Video Systems in an IT Environment has helped thousands of professionals in broadcast, post and other m....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Author Alasdair Allan , Kipp Bradford
Build your own distributed sensor network to collect, analyze, and visualize real-time data about our human environment—including noise level, temperature, and people flow. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn how to turn your project idea into working hardware, us....
Release Date 2013/03 -
Implantable Sensor Systems for Medical Applications
Author D Hodgins , A Inmann
Implantable sensor systems offer great potential for enhanced medical care and improved quality of life, consequently leading to major investment in this exciting field. Implantable sensor systems for medical applications provides a wide-ranging overview of the core....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Frequency-Domain Analysis and Design of Distributed Control Systems
Author Yu-Ping Tian
This book presents a unified frequency-domain method for the analysis of distributed control systems. The following important topics are discussed by using the proposed frequency-domain method: (1) Scalable stability criteria of networks of distributed control syste....
Release Date 2012/11