An updated version of my favorite book on distributed computing.
Excellent references list and suggested readings. It's a very good book to get a broad sense of distributed systems.
The new materials are mainly about peer-to-peer, with extensive discussion about distributed hash tables although scattered across the book.
There is also coverage for Web Services but it's not very extensive with some major omissions, namely WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging.
The new Architectures chapter is not very clear and it somewhat confusing because of the paradigm approach in the later chapters of object-based, file-based, web-based and coordination-based distributed systems.
Finally, I loved the new cover. It's much more sober and inspiring than the first edition's.
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