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by acuozzo 1000 days ago
What kind of distributed systems work?

Usenet (servers) are as much of a distributed system as a Hadoop cluster.

The same can be said for e.g., DNS vs. Spark.
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multiplied 997 days ago
Handling large data basically. I already work with small data distributed systems.
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DamonHD 997 days ago
The flooding algorithm of USENET is a wonder. Still worth understanding how it actually avoided endlessly sending the same articles in loops for example.

(I used to run one of the world's busiest USENET nodes from my house for a short while! I did not know that it was pssible to physically wear out hard discs until then...)

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