Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems is a field of computer science that studies collections of autonomous computing elements that appear to their users as a single coherent system. These systems, connected by a network, communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to achieve a common goal, such as sharing resources, improving performance, or providing fault tolerance. The core challenges in this domain involve managing concurrency, overcoming the lack of a global clock, and handling partial failures, all of which are fundamental to building the scalable and resilient infrastructure that powers the internet, cloud computing, and large-scale data processing.