What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

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We all think we know what “distributed computing” is, but the idea has matured and fragmented into different technologies. In the early 1980s distributed systems were simple client/server applications ...

Gaurav Bansal is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber with 12+ years of experience in scalable, high-performance distributed systems. Every new tech business today builds distributed systems and ...