A couple of weeks back a junior developer asked me a seemingly simple question – What is a distributed system? One question led to another and we end up spending more than an hour discussing different aspects of distributed systems. I felt my knowledge on distributed systems was rusty and I was unable to explain concepts in a simple and clear manner.
In the last two weeks since our discussion I spent time reading distributed systems literature to gain better understanding of the basics. In a series of post starting today, I will cover distributed system basics. In today’s post we will cover what and why of distributed systems.
