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by esfandia 585 days ago
The right book for the right problem. SICP isn't meant to teach you how to tackle fault-tolerance in a complex distributed system. Here is a textbook that talks about distributed systems (van Steen and Tannenbaum):

https://www.amazon.ca/Distributed-Systems-Maarten-van-Steen/...
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nioj 585 days ago
You can also get a free PDF version of that textbook here https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/books/ds4/ (you only need to provide an email)
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__turbobrew__ 584 days ago
Yes, I have the distributed system book from van Steen :)
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