From d387afaf8a56cc9b85de01b193b4bf588a5f14a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heather Miller Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:13:34 -0400 Subject: Test --- README.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 314813c..09aab44 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,4 +3,9 @@ Programming Models for Distributed Computation Source repo for the book that I and my students in my course at Northeastern University, [CS7680 Special Topics in Computing Systems: Programming Models for Distributed Computing](http://heather.miller.am/teaching/cs7680/) are writing on the topic of programming models for distributed systems. -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 concerns central to distributed systems like consistency, availability, and fault tolerance, from the lense of framework the programmer uses to build systems with properties such as these. \ No newline at end of file +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 +concerns central to distributed systems like consistency, availability, and +fault tolerance, from the lense of the programming models and frameworks that +the programmer uses to build these systems. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3