Failure in distributed systems is normal. Distributed systems can provide only two of the three guarantees in consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. According to Kevlin Henney, this ...

For example, in Amazon, a high-traffic database can cost millions per year. With hundreds of distributed systems, these costs add up to hundreds of millions, making optimization crucial for long ...

As stated in the original Dapper paper, modern Internet services are often implemented as complex, large-scale distributed systems -- for example, using the popular microservice architectural style.

Agility is increasingly being seen as an essential element underlying the effectiveness of globally distributed information systems development (ISD) teams today. However, for a variety of reasons, ...