Challenges and Opportunities in Distributed Systems

Challenges and Opportunities in Distributed Systems

Eventual Consistency

The foundational infrastructure of the cloud is built upon the concept of eventual consistency.

A good example of this is Amazon DynamoDB.

CAP Theorem

There is a tradeoff between consistency, availabilty and fault-tolerance.

Amdahl’s Law

There are diminishing returns with parallelization.

Elasticity

The ability to adapt to a varying workload. You should only pay for what you use.

Highly Available

Does the system always respond with a healthy response? A good example of a highly availability system is Amazon S3