Top "Distributed-system" questions

A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers, connected through a network and distribution middleware, which enables computers to coordinate their activities and to share the resources of the system, so that users perceive the system as a single, integrated computing facility.

Best distributed filesystem for commodity linux storage farm

I have a lot of spare intel linux servers laying around (hundreds) and want to use them for a distributed …

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What do we mean by "top percentile" or TP based latency?

When we discuss performance of a distributed system we use the terms tp50, tp90, tp99.99 TPS. Could someone explain what …

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What is Bulkhead Pattern used by Hystrix?

Hystrix, a Netflix API for latency and fault tolerance in complex distributed systems uses Bulkhead Pattern technique for thread isolation. …

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what is the Vertical and Horizontal distribution?

Vertical distribution : Distributed processing is equivalent to organizing a client-server application as a multitiered architecture . Place logically different components on …

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Amazon S3 architecture

While the post @ http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture explains Amazon's architecture in general, I am interested in knowing how Amazon S3 …

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What are the essentials of real-time distributed systems?

I am getting my foot into contracting and have had today my first round interview for a contractor position. I …

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What is the difference between Java RMI and JMS?

When designing an distributed application in Java there seem to be a few technologies that address the same kind of …

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Distributed System: Leader Election

Im currently working on a Distributed System where we have to implement some kind of Leader Election. The problem is …

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Programming languages for distributed system

I've been doing socket programming for a while in C++, and kind of got tired of having to write the …

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paxos vs raft for leader election

After reading paxos and raft paper, I have following confusion: paxos paper only describe consensus on single log entry, which …

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