Kai Hwang Libri

Explains how to create high-performance, scalable, reliable systems, exposing the design principles, architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, distributed, and cloud computing systems. Using examples from open-source and commercial vendors, this text describes cloud-based systems for research, e-commerce, social networking and more.

In 1870, 17-year-old apprentice bookbinder Etienne Bonin travels from revolutionary Lyon to even more revolutionary Paris seeking excitement and professional opportunity, and by the spring of 1871 is deeply committed to the insurrection for workers' power.