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What Is a Distributed System?
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What Is a Distributed System?

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01/24/22 Before you can answer this question, I like to step back and take a good look at the history of computing. Mainframes and legacy client-server applications were monolithic—all the processing took place on a single set of hardware. As hardware grew cheaper, and especially ... The post What Is a Distributed System? appeared first on SolarWinds Blog.
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