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, 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 the programming models and frameworks that the programmer uses to build these systems.
Editing this book
Workflow
- Fork/clone
- Edit on your local branch
- Make a pull request to the
master
branch with your changes. Do not commit directly to the repository - After merge, visit the live site
http://dist-prog-book.com/chapter/x/your-article.html
Note: We have CI that builds the book for each commit. Pull requests that don't build will not be merged.
Note: when PRs are merged, the site is built and redeployed automatically.
Structure
Chapters are located in the chapter
folder of the root directory.
Dependencies
This site uses a Jekyll, a Ruby framework. You'll need Ruby and Bundler installed.
If you have Ruby already installed, to install Bundler, just do sudo gem install bundler
Building & Viewing
Please build and view your site locally before submitting a PR!
cd into the directory where you cloned this repository, then install the
required gems with bundle install
. This will automatically put the gems into
./vendor/bundle
.
Start the server in the context of the bundle:
bundle exec jekyll serve
The generated site is available at http://localhost:4000
Note, this will bring you to the index page. If you'd like to see your chapter,
make sure to navigate there explicitly, e.g.,
http://localhost:4000/chapter/1/rpc.html
.
Adding/editing pages
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 do, I've prepared an example article.
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.