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Distributed paradigms

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This course surveys paradigms for distributed systems, covering distributed models, message-passing protocols, distributed objects, event-based bus architectures, and tuple architectures. It compares synchronous and asynchronous communication, fixed and adaptive protocols, and hub-and-spoke and multicast bus designs.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Distributed models
  • 1 Distributed models
  • 2 Message passing
  • 2 Message passing
  • 2.1 Protocols
  • 2.2 Fixed and adaptive protocols
  • 2.3 Synchronous and asynchronous message passing
  • 2.4 The message passing idea
  • 3 Distributed objects technology
  • 3 Distributed objects technology
  • 3.1 Distributed objects technology
  • 4 Event-based bus architectures
  • 4 Event-based bus architectures
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Architectures
  • 4.2.1 Hub and spoke architectures
  • 4.2.2 Multicast bus architectures
  • 4.3 A commercial implementation
  • 5 Tuple architecture
  • 5 Tuple architecture
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 An example
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Acknowledgements

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    Nice free course, great concepts, fundational, organized, short,, but with 20 year old tech and implementation...some can still usefull today specially in large corporations and banks
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