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| author | Heather Miller <heather.miller@epfl.ch> | 2016-12-19 13:32:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Heather Miller <heather.miller@epfl.ch> | 2016-12-19 13:32:07 -0500 |
| commit | 7aa3508c5893848b64b21676356a0fd0105a1f23 (patch) | |
| tree | a004e3838a6cddb17172eaea7981fe14d818992a /README.md | |
| parent | 675698f6304a38e8250d14691c7310f2cc68fb80 (diff) | |
| parent | fc1d99e92d6bdfa56d556bb8ed77679e944d7aff (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:heathermiller/dist-prog-book
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@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Source repo for the book that I and my students in my course at Northeastern Uni This is a book about the programming constructs we use to build distributed systems. These range from the small, RPC, futures, actors, to the large; systems -built up of these components like MapReduce and Spark. We explore issues +built up of these components like MapReduce and Spark. We explore issues and concerns central to distributed systems like consistency, availability, and -fault tolerance, from the lense of the programming models and frameworks that +fault tolerance, from the lens of the programming models and frameworks that the programmer uses to build these systems. _**Please note that this is a work in progress, the book contents are in this repo, but we have not yet polished everything and published the final book online. Expected release: end of December**_ @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ _**Please note that this is a work in progress, the book contents are in this re 2. Futures & Promises 3. Message-passing 4. Distributed Programming Languages -5. Langauges Extended for Distribution +5. Languages Extended for Distribution 6. CAP, Consistency, & CRDTs 7. Programming Languages & Consistency 8. Large-scale Parallel Batch Processing @@ -71,14 +71,12 @@ make sure to navigate there explicitly, e.g., Articles are in Markdown with straightforward YAML frontmatter. -You can include code, math (Latex syntax), figures, blockquotes, side notes, -etc. You can also use regular bibtex to make a bibliography. To see everything +You can include code, math (LaTeX syntax), figures, blockquotes, side notes, +etc. You can also use regular BibTeX to make a bibliography. To see everything you can do, I've prepared an example article. - [Live example article](http://dist-prog-book.com/example.html) - [Corresponding example page markdown](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heathermiller/dist-prog-book/master/example.md) -If you would like to add bibtex entries to the bibliography for your chapter, +If you would like to add BibTeX entries to the bibliography for your chapter, check the `_bibliography` directory for a `.bib` file named after your chapter. - - |