What are distributed systems, and how do they work? What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system.

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What is the future of the distributed system? This question was originally answered on Quora by Kolton Andrus.

Failure in distributed systems is normal. Distributed systems can provide only two of the three guarantees in consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. According to Kevlin Henney, this ...

What does distributed operating system actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

But what is unique to distributed cloud computing, and how might enterprises benefit? Let’s explore distributed cloud and the potential benefits which are attracting a lot of attention. The ...

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...