Alvaro Videla, distributed systems engineer and co-author of RabbitMQ in Action, reviewed distributed systems theory at QCon London 2017. This involved breaking distributed systems into different ...

These are both early examples of distributed systems: a collection of independent computers that appear to users as a single coherent system.

Distributed file systems have emerged as dynamic and scalable storage solutions. We explore the architectures of three distributed file systems: Google File System (GFS), Tectonic, and JuiceFS.