June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
8h 46m
English
Distributed systems have always interested me. A distributed system is like a really good puzzle – immensely satisfying once you figure out how all the pieces fit together to achieve your goal. If you're not familiar with the term, a distributed system is simply a situation where you have various components of a system spread across multiple machines on a network. The idea is to split up the work and coordinate efforts among the components to complete tasks more efficiently. A great example would be Apache Spark, which we covered back in Chapter 3, Data Science with Apache Arrow.
The goal of distributed systems is generally to provide a robust, scalable, and reliable conglomeration of components ...
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