Transcription of Distributed Systems
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48 Distributed SystemsDistributed Systems have changed the face of the world. When your webbrowser connects to a web server somewhere else on the planet, it is par-ticipating in what seems to be a simple form of aclient/serverdistributedsystem. When you contact a modern web service such as Google or Face-book, you are not just interacting with a single machine, however;be-hind the scenes, these complex services are built from a large collection( , thousands) of machines, each of which cooperate to provide the par-ticular service of the site. Thus, it should be clear what makesstudyingdistributed Systems interesting.
tributed systems, it also represents an opportunity. Yes, machines fail; but the mere fact that a machine fails does not imply the entire system must fail. By collecting together a set of machines, we can build a sys-tem that appears to rarely fail, despite the fact that its …
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