Distributed Systems

Distributed System — computer system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system

Main reasons to build distributed systems are: Parallelism, Fault Tolerance, Business Demand (banking), Security

Content

• Inter-Process Communication
• Failure Detection
• Naming and Search
• Scaling
• Data Replication
• Consistency
• Consensus and Related Problems
• Security
• Present and Future of Distributed Systems
• Additional Resources