There are distributed systems all around us. When there is a coordinated effort by lot of stakeholders to achieve a common goal, we can call it a distributed system. In our daily lives we encounter technology at every turn. The phone call we make, the email we send, the Instagram picture we upload, the Google search we perform. All of them are made possible with a distributed system running behind it.
Distributed systems and their essentials
Distributed system - definition
A distributed system is one in which components located at networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions only by passing messages.
There are a few key traits we can use to identify a distributed system; they are just pointers, not a complete...