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Title: Excellent reference for reliable distributed computing
Review: 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.
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