Distributed Systems
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What is Distributed Systems?
A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that communicate and coordinate to appear as a single unified system. They are widely used for scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability in modern applications. However, they bring challenges such as synchronization, consistency trade-offs (CAP theorem), concurrency, and network latency.
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