Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation

by Mark Burgess

Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn't matter whether we're talking about humans on a team, birds in a flock, computers in a datacenter, or cogs in a Swiss watch. A theory of cooperation ought to be pretty universal, so we should be able to apply it both to technology and to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491917873
• ISBN13: 9781491917879
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"