Chapter 11. Distributed Applications
Applications that use networks, called distributed applications, become more important every day. Fortunately, the .NET BCL and other libraries offer many constructs that make communicating over a network easy, which in turn makes creating distributed applications in F# is straightforward.
Networking Overview
Several types of distributed applications exist; they're generally classified into either client-server applications, in which clients make requests to a central server; or peer-to-peer applications, in which computers exchange data among themselves. In this chapter, you'll focus on building client-server applications because these are currently more common. Whichever type of distributed application you ...
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