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I would say the author just tried to redefined "distributed", and ignored those real distributed systems, e.g. Paxos/Raft-based ones.
by gslin 4y ago
I would say the author just tried to redefined "distributed", and ignored those real distributed systems, e.g. Paxos/Raft-based ones.
- quietbritishjim 4y agoYou are thinking of fully decentralised systems. A system where there is a centralised leader is still a distributed system so long as at least some of the processing takes place on other nodes.
- codelorado 4y agoAs per Wikipedia, a distributed system is: "a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system." You're describing consensus algorithms.