December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 35m
English
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Preface
Why This Book
In 2017, I was involved in developing a software system for a large optical telescope called Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). We needed to build a core framework and services to be used by various subsystems. The subsystem components had to discover each other and detect component failures. There was also a requirement to store metadata about these components. The service responsible for storing this information had to be fault-tolerant. We couldn’t use off-the-shelf products and frameworks due to the unique nature of the telescope ecosystem. We had to build it all from scratch—to create a core framework and services that different subsystems of the software could use. In essence, we had to build a distributed system.
I had ...