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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. ## Chapters @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ the programmer uses to build these systems. 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 @@ -69,14 +69,12 @@ 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. - - |