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To facilitate the writing of large maintainable distributed systems we need to separate out various concerns. We view these concerns as being communication, computation, configuration and coordination. We look at the coordination requirements of long running systems, paying particular attention to enabling the dynamic addition and removal of services. We show that the key to a smooth integration of configuration and coordination into systems is a new style of communication. We show how these ideas can be incorporated into the actor model.
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Radestock, M., Eisenbach, S. (1996). Coordination in evolving systems. In: Spaniol, O., Linnhoff-Popien, C., Meyer, B. (eds) Trends in Distributed Systems CORBA and Beyond. TreDS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61842-2_34
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