Introduction

A short introduction to distributed systems and what we’ll study in this chapter.

We'll cover the following

Distributed systems

With the rise of information systems, data is no longer stored on a single computer, but rather spread across large networks where many individual entities are physically distributed over a large geographical area. This new approach caused a fundamental interest in distributed systems but also introduced new problems. In fact, the design of distributed computing systems contains a high degree of complexity.

Get hands-on with 1200+ tech skills courses.