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There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System.

The article discusses building a distributed system. Discussion centers on a sample Web service that resizes an image. Topics covered include constructing the architecture for a distributed system, breaking a distributed system down into its constituent services, details for the associated applicati...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 63 - 71
Main Author: Cavage, Mark
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2013
Subjects:
Distributed computing
Image servers
Client/server computing
Computer network architectures
Service level agreements
Application program interfaces
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses building a distributed system. Discussion centers on a sample Web service that resizes an image. Topics covered include constructing the architecture for a distributed system, breaking a distributed system down into its constituent services, details for the associated application programming interface (API), using a distributed message queue to deliver images to transcoding servers, automating failovers to satisfy available service-level agreements, and the testing and validation of a distributed system.