The distributed database system is a third category of a distributed system. A database is distributed among several computers or nodes under this architecture, and they all work together to store ...

How do you effectively build a distributed, enterprise architecture? It's a daunting, if not somewhat nebulous question, akin to asking someone how do you build a house? The answer depends on what ...

Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. This article covers the architecture, features and characteristics of Kafka and how it compares with other messaging systems.

The highly centralized enterprise data center is becoming a thing of the past, as organizations must embrace a more distributed model to deal with everything from content management to big data. Here ...

Laura Nolan looks at some real distributed system architectures and examines the tradeoffs made, showing how simple systems can create complex and difficult to understand behaviors.

The Juniper Connected Security Distributed Services Architecture integrates unified security management with advanced routing and AI.

Yet they are managed as a single, cohesive system. Unlike centralized or hybrid approaches, distributed cloud treats geographic and architectural diversity as a feature, not a compromise.