This book increases the awareness of the role and significance of application-level fault-tolerance, by highlighting important concepts that are often neglected or misunderstood, as well as introducing the available tools and approaches that can be used to craft high-quality dependable services by working also in the application layer.
– Vincenzo De Florio, University Antwerp, Belgium and Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology, Belgium
This book discusses methods, architectures, and tools that allow a fault-tolerant system design, netoworking, telecommunication, and social computing.
– Book News Inc. (March 2009)
The book is based on a course in software dependability for PhD students. Thus, the work will be useful to this group, even though it does not deal with complex theoretical issues such as enhanced reliability modeling. Due to its focus on mechanisms and applications, as well as its presentation via examples and case studies appended with code, it is also suitable for engineers who specialize in the design of software devoted to operations that require high dependability.
– Piotr Cholda, Computing Reviews Online