Distributed and Cloud Computing: Clusters, Grids, Clouds, and the Future Internet

From the leading minds in the field, "Distributed and Cloud Computing" is the first modern, up-to-date distributed systems textbook. Starting with an overview of modern distributed models, the book exposes the design principles, systems architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, distributed, and cloud computing systems. It will teach you how to create high-performance, scalable, reliable systems, providing comprehensive coverage of distributed and cloud computing, including:

Facilitating management, debugging, migration, and disaster recovery through virtualization

Clustered systems for research or ecommerce applications

Designing systems as web services

Social networking systems using peer-to-peer computing

Principles of cloud computing using examples from open-source and commercial applications

Using examples from open-source and commercial vendors, the text describes cloud-based systems for research, e-commerce, social networking and more.