Distributed systems in their smallest form is a computing environment in which components are spread across several computers. Meaning that each of these components is responsible for a specific functionality within this network of computers.

A problem that often appears in such systems is scalability. That is, the flexibility and ability of a system to serve 10 users as well as 10,000,000 users in the same capacity.That’s why a lot of thought goes into the architectural design of these systems.

In this podcast we talk about how these systems generally operate, their pitfalls,  scalability issues and how to overcome them.