my_digital_garden/content/ASCN/T - Aula 2.md

18 Setembro 2023 - #ASCN

Why distributed systems?

• Modularity, decoupling different concerns.
• Performance.
• Dependability

How to distribute?

1. Monolythic system

• Architecture: Monolithic system.excalidraw
• Multiple services for multiple targets in the same server

2. Distributed system

• Main distribution concerns:
  1. Replication
  2. Partitioning
  3. Service-orientation
• All of these address scaling out a service/application.
• Not mutually exclusive, can be combined.

2.1 Replication

• Architecture: Replication.excalidraw
• Multiple copies of the same data and functionality
• Addresses resilience and scale-out

2.2 Partitioning

• Architecture: Partitioning.excalidraw
• A server is split horizontally (Sharding).
• Addresses scale-out.
• Can be applied to computation, data, ...