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Distributed Systems

Maarten van Steen & Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Teaches distributed systems around a small set of recurring problems - naming, communication, coordination, consistency and fault tolerance - rather than as a tour of unrelated case studies.

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FreeIntermediate600 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026

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Too easy? Go hereLinearizability: A Correctness Condition for Concurrent ObjectsMaurice P. Herlihy & Jeannette M. Wing, 1990Defines linearizability as each operation appearing to take effect instantaneously at some point between its call and return, giving concurrent objects a correctness condition as strong as sequential correctness.

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