Programming Distributed Computing SystemsCarlos A. Varela, Gul Agha
Programming Distributed Computing Systems
by Carlos A. Varela, Gul Agha · first published 2013
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This PDF is an exerpt from the book Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach by Professor Carlos Varela. He was my advisor at RPI, and one of the most pleasant professors I had the pleasure of interacting with during my time there. His classes were notoriously…
on “λ Calculus [pdf]” ↗…the cheaper ones. Then I started finding individual topics that interested me, which largely dealt with distributed computing, weird abstract math, and video processing. For that, I bought the book "Programming Distributed Computing Systems" by Varela, "Certified Programming with Dependent Types" by Chlipala, and random books on Fourier Transforms from eBay. This is over the course of a few years, and it was intermixed with about a million…
on “No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers” ↗Programming Distributed Computing Systems A Foundational Approach Carlos A. Varela 2013 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262018982/programming-distribut...
on “λ Calculus [pdf]” ↗…compared in terms of some metrics (some measurement, quantities, ...) in aspects either mentioned above or not. (Butcher's book doesn't mention such metrics. I also tried but haven't found it in Varela's Programming Distributed Computing Systems.) If concurrency models can not be compared in metrics, how can they be compared? I am looking for some metrics to fit into the comparison between the concurrency models. Also for books, papers and…
on “Can concurrency models be compared in terms of some metrics?” ↗