Distributed Systems Illustrated: A Visual Guide for Beginners, Students, and Curious Professionals: From First Principles to Advanced Ideas (VV Research Illustrated Series)
Distributed Systems Illustrated: A Visual Guide for Beginners, Students, and Curious Professionals: From First Principles to Advanced Ideas (VV Research Illustrated Series)
Distributed Systems Illustrated: A Visual Guide for Beginners, Students, and Curious Professionals: From First Principles to Advanced Ideas (VV Research Illustrated Series) - Research, VV
New Book
Imported
to Austria
Delivery: 17 Nov - 19 Nov
Shipping: 6 to 7 business days.
25,16 €
Import costs and 10% VAT included in the price ✅
25,16 €
Choose the list to add your product or create one New List
Distributed Systems Illustrated: A Visual Guide for Beginners, Students, and Curious Professionals: From First Principles to Advanced Ideas (VV Research Illustrated Series)
Research, VV
Synopsis "Distributed Systems Illustrated: A Visual Guide for Beginners, Students, and Curious Professionals: From First Principles to Advanced Ideas (VV Research Illustrated Series)"
Every message you send, every payment you make and every map you open depends on thousands of computers that must agree—even while some of them are failing. Most explanations of distributed systems assume you already write code, or bury the ideas in jargon. Distributed Systems Illustrated takes a picture-first approach. With over 100 full-colour illustrations, every idea arrives as a picture before it gets a name. No programming is needed, and every number is worked out in plain words with small, round figures. Inside, you’ll discover:Foundations: What a distributed system really is, why failure is the normal case, and why clocks and networks cannot be trusted. Communication & Data: Remote calls, safe retries, consistency models, replication and partitioning. Agreement: Consensus, majorities, leader election, Raft and Paxos in plain words, transactions across machines, and logs as the source of truth. Building Blocks: Caches, queues and streams, key-value stores, locks, leases and fencing, gossip and failure detection. In Production: Services that talk to services, load balancing, scaling up, out and back, and observability. The Frontier: Testing for failure, security and Byzantine faults, global systems, and how to keep learning. Built-in Study Aids: A worked example and a “Myth vs. Reality” check in every chapter, chapter summaries, one-picture recaps, a timeline, a glossary and a reading list. Written for curious beginners, students, and developers, managers and other tech professionals who want to understand how the systems behind modern apps really work. Pick up your copy and see how many machines can behave as one.