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1) Dropbox is distributed. 2) This article doesn't actually make any argument about why a centralized system can scale as well as a distributed one.
by rco8786 12y ago
1) Dropbox is distributed.
2) This article doesn't actually make any argument about why a centralized system can scale as well as a distributed one.
- mad44 12y agoRelated to 2), the answer is hierarchies. Related to 1), the linked article writes: (For those who want to nitpick, I know Dropbox is not fully centralized; it uses AWS S3 for storage and Dropbox-company servers for metadata management. Also, it employs data parallelism in the backend for scalability, but, on the spectrum, it is closer to a centralized architecture than a fully decentralized one.) The point is to compare a more centralized architecture to a more/fully decentralized architecture.