Using the Isis2 Library to Build Scalable High‐Assurance Services.
Using the Isis2 Library to Build Scalable High‐Assurance Services.
Author: Ken Birman, Cornell University.
Introduction
The need for high assurance has never been greater: with the trends towards data centers of all sizes and shapes (ranging from small racks of just a dozen or two machines to massive cloud computing data centers with hundreds of thousands of them), developers of modern computing systems need to target the Web, employ Web Services APIs, and yet somehow ensure that the solutions they build can scale out without loss of assurance properties such as data security (who knows what the other users of the cloud might be doing… or what might be watching?), consistency and fault‐tolerance.
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