Technology architecture - Concept
Distributed system
A system whose work is spread across multiple computers acting together
What's it for?
Spreads work across several computers so a system can handle more work or keep running if one part fails.
For example…
An online shop is a distributed system when separate computers handle the website, stock, payments and orders but together appear as one service.
A distributed database stores copies across several machines so work can continue even if one server disappears