lately a lot of people seem to think it's fun to point out that "distributed systems" can just mean two nodes and a network.
colloquially, distsys means "the hardest and most interesting thing about this system is its distributedness", i.e. lots of small dynamic components.
- lately a lot of people seem to think it's fun to point out that "distributed systems" can just mean two nodes and a network. colloquially, distsys means "the hardest and most interesting thing about this system is its distributedness", i.e. lots of small dynamic components.
a distributed system is one where the interesting work takes place around narrowing the critical path and loosely coupling other things to it, graceful degradation, backoff techniques, other things that assume sprawling distributed components and an unreliable network.