Hi Jonas

Thanks a lot to take the time to answer such question, I really appreciate!

I'm a bit surprised though: most of the books/papers you refer are
"research level", meaning for building solutions. I was kind of
thinking/hoping some solutions would already be built

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Jonas Bonér <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is a list of some of the more recent nice books I’ve read on
> distributed systems:
>
>    - This is a nice one IMO. Brings in failure as a first class concept,
>    makes it suitable for the real world:
>    http://www.distributedprogramming.net/
>    - This one is interesting as well. More theoretical, but eye opening.
>    Written by Gul Agha’s student.
>    
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Distributed-Computing-Systems-Foundational/dp/0262018985
>    - I’m reading this one right now, too early to judge:
>    
> http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Computing-Through-Combinatorial-Topology/dp/0124045782
>    - This one is the one with interesting algos, but that ignores failure
>    (but most books do that actually):
>    
> http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Algorithms-Message-Passing-Systems-Michel/dp/3642381227/
>    - This is a nice one on multicore programming (related):
>    
> http://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Revised-Reprint/dp/0123973376
>    - Joe Armstrong’s thesis, essential reading for building
>    fault-tolerant systems:
>    http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
>
> But I’ve learned most from reading papers. I can recommend all the papers
> listed in the references section in my talk:
> www.slideshare.net/jboner/the-road-to-akka-cluster-and-beyond
> ​
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Joseph Pachod <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Our small software shop has recently been bought and now we face the
>> issue of building a distributed system, meaning by that moving from
>> monolithic web based products to a "platform" with various optional modules.
>>
>> The main characteristics looked for are :
>> - seen as a web app by the users
>> - mostly deployed on premises
>> - mission critical software (health care - emergency services), so
>> downtime and seamless upgrades (most of the time at least)
>> - if possible should allow for multiple languages/stack on the JVM and
>> even beyond (.Net I'm looking at you !).
>>
>> Being a commuter and a big reader, I'm looking for the best resource(s)
>> on the topic, any hints ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Best
>> Joseph
>>
>> PS: I already tried scala/akka/eventsourced (now akka persistence), but
>> there's quite a step going to a proper distributed systems from there...
>>
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