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Distributed systems are collections of independent computers that appear to users as a single coherent system. They enable scalability, fault tolerance and geographic distribution but introduce concurrency, consistency and coordination challenges. Design requires trade-offs among performance, availability and complexity across networked nodes.
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It lets independent computers cooperate over a network and appear as one system for a task.
It grew from the need to share computation and data while tolerating failures of individual machines.
Clients call several nodes without seeing every step; messages coordinate state and replicas preserve availability. Network and time remain uncertain.
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