Saturday, October 10, 2009

A metaphor for distributed system

There are many official, or rather impenetrable explanation of distributed system. When I was studying it in NUS, it really took me sometime to understand it.

Actually, I think the distributed system can be easily explained by comparing to our traffic system. Every vehicle is a self-controlled system, with its own thinking and follow certain rules, and the entire system works well. A traffic accident is either because the law is not good (very unlikely), or because some unit break the law, then the entire system has someway to recover.

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