Most computer-based systems are now distributed systems. A distributed system is one involving several computers rather than a single application running on a single machine. Even apparently self-contained applications on a PC or laptop, such as image editors, are distributed systems. They execute on a single computer system but often rely on remote cloud systems for update, storage, and other services. Tanenbaum and Van Steen (Tanenbaum and Van Steen 2007) define a distributed system to be “a collection of independent computers that appears to the user as a single coherent system.”†
When you are designing a distributed ...
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