Add to ORKGIn recent years, many distributed systems have evolved to cope with the convergence of their domain and computer networks. As an example, Internet telephony has drastically change the face of the telecommunications domain in the last decade by introducing many new services based on Web services and databases. Distributed systems that provide advanced services must be efficient to be able to treat a large number of users and must be robust to face various attacks targeting the service itself or the underlying platform. However, building efficient and robust distributed systems requires an intimate knowledge of the relevant protocols and a substantial understanding of low-level system and network programming, which can be a challenge for many...