System architecture design decisions Coding practices Scalability and capacity planning Performance measurements taken against a distributed computer system are not always consistent.

This is the first article in a two-part series that will discuss procedures for analyzing the performance of an n-tier distributed computer system. In part one, we examine components of a test ...

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By keeping track of this clock as it is updated by various processes across the computer the distributed system can be much more confident about the order in which events took place.

Technologies edge computing and containerisation call for teams capable of building distributed systems.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION: Distributed systems consists of a collection of independent computers that appears to its users as a single coherent system. While their early development followed the emergence ...

University researchers are testing whether a distributed computing system could be used to prevent a major blackout during a cyberattack on the nation's power grid.

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