TCSS 558: |
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Textbook Maarten van Steen, Andrew Tanenbaum Distributed Systems, (online) Version 3.01 Publisher: Pearson Education, 2017. Optional George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, et al. Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design 5th Edition Publisher: Pearson, 2011. |
Instructor: Wes J. Lloyd Office: Cherry Parkes 229 Office Hours: W 3-4pm, or by appointment E-mail: wlloyd <@> uw.edu Tel: (253) 692-5681 |
Course Information The textbook, the third edition of the Steen and Tanenbaum Distributed Systems textbook is available online as a free digital book at: (textbook) In addition, we will refer to and review relevant research papers. Learning Objectives The primary objectives of TCSS 558 is to communicate a variety of diverse techniques and concepts associated with constructing software that is distributed, reliable, efficient, and extensible. An array of topics and design tradeoffs will be covered which underlie modern Applied Distributed Computing. We will consider how systems are represented and reason about their behavior to support critical thinking about the tradeoff spaces involved in distributed system designs. This course will cover a broad range of topics including:
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