distributed system
Connected computing cluster
A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to users as a single coherent system.
The components communicate and coordinate over a network, sharing workloads and data across multiple machines.
Distributed systems power much of modern computing—cloud services, databases, content delivery networks: The website runs on a distributed system spanning three continents.
The architecture provides scalability and fault tolerance but introduces complexity around consistency and coordination.
- clusterGathered group nearby
- nodeConnection point in networks
- data centerFacility housing networked computers
- networkInterconnected system
- scalableAble to increase capacity
fault-tolerant · replica · shard · consensus · latency · partition · split brain · server · cloud · microservices · round robin · failover · synchronization · heartbeat · gossip · eventual · Kafka · Cassandra
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