Distributed Computing: Illusion of Single System

Written by krishnansrinath | Published 2020/05/10
Tech Story Tags: distributed-systems | computing | software-design

TLDR A distributed computing is a collection of software services that provides an illusion to users as one system. To end-users, everything might feel seamless, as though we are simply interacting with a single website. At the core, a distributed computing hides things from users by providing transparency. For example, when we stream a movie on Netflix, we may be fetching data from one system, sending data to another system, and awaiting a response from another system before it streams a movie. An API is a reliable way to access the resource using the same, repeatable operations, yielding the same result.via the TL;DR App

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Written by krishnansrinath | Product builder | People Developer | Engineering Management
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/05/10