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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While those simple systems can technically be considered distributed, when engineers refer to distributed systems they’re typically talking about massively complex systems made up of many moving parts communicating with one another, with all of it appearing to an end-user as a single product, says Nora Jones, a senior software engineer at Netflix.