Books on writing distributed systems

Mark Blackman mark at blackmans.org
Wed Mar 26 10:59:21 GMT 2008


On 25 Mar 2008, at 20:03, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Is there any decent literature on writing systems that keep data in  
> sync
> in a master-master/live fail over kind of way. I seem to have 3  
> projects
> on that all have that requirements in that area.
>
> To be clear - I'm aware that there *is* literature out there on this
> stuff, I'm just looking for a recommendation. At the moment I'm  
> leaning
> towards Tannenbaum's book because, well, he rocks.
>
> Additionally, are there any libraries out there that generically do  
> this
> sort of thing i.e have a binary blob of data that's kept in sync  
> between
> n>1 machines?
>

http://www.spreadconcepts.com/publications.html

and

http://www.spreadconcepts.com/replicationSuite.html

may be useful.

- Mark





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