| | |  | Home Computing | Home » » Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications | | | | | | | Description: | | KENNETH P. BIRMAN is an ACM Fellow and a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, where his research focuses on reliable, secure, and scalable distributed computing systems. His work has been applied to the NYSE, the Swiss Stock Exchange, the US Navy's AEGIS warship, and the French air-traffic control system. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Kenneth P. Birman | | Hardcover:
| 591 pages | | Publisher:
| Prentice Hall | | Publication Date:
| 1997-05 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0137195842 | | Package Length:
| 9.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 read the new version "Reliable Distributed Systems"Jul 12, 2007
Although the first version has a more general scope I really think that the author tried to talk about to many subjects.
The new version of the book "Reliable Distributed Systems" is much better. It is true that in the new version the author mixes two different things: Web Services and Reliability in distributed systems.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent marriage of theory and practiceJul 13, 2000
Kenneth Birman is one of the best at bringing together an academic thoroughness with a real-world practicality. He explains concepts well. In addition, many parts of the book stand on their own quite well. That is, you can skip chapters that are not relevant to your current work, and still glean tremendous insight into the issues and ideas presented. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in understanding how to implement distributed applications or replication strategies.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Excellent marriage of theory and practiceJul 13, 2000
Kenneth Birman is one of the best at bringing together an academic thoroughness with a real-world practicality. He explains concepts well. In addition, many parts of the book stand on their own quite well. That is, you can skip chapters that are not relevant to your current work, and still glean tremendous insight into the issues and ideas presented. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in understanding how to implement distributed applications or replication strategies.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent reference for reliable distributed computingNov 01, 1999
Ken Birman is one of the foremost academic experts in this still young field. This book will give you a good understanding of the different techniques available for ensuring reliable communications between machines: from transactions to group communication systems.It is *not* a book for novicies, though his style is still quite readable. It's a very dense text - not much whitespace or many diagrams.
1 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Worst book that i have come acrossSep 30, 1999
This is by far most useless book among the books about Network. It does not explain the concepts well. It doesn't serve as a reference well.
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