L1: What is a distributed system?

What is a distributed system? When should you use one? This video provides a very brief introduction, as well as giving you context for the complete set of videos which make up this Distributed Systems class.

[iamjanice_k]

8years later and this is the best definition of distributed systems i've seen on the internet. I really started seeing distributed systems everywhere once i started loking

[piyushchaudhary]

I know just after watching the first video that this series is really going to help me a lot.

[vaibhav]

Thank you Chris for the great series of Videos. Please keep them coming. Love the dry sense of humour!!!

[paulfrischknecht]

Thank you. 8:11 I love how in almost every discipline you can say "everything is an X!". E.g. in numerical optimization, they say "look, everything is an optimization problem". In Economics, they say "everything is a question of supply and demand". Maths can say it, physics can say it, chemistry, biology, psychology can say it etc. etc... Even music. ;) They all have something going for them, but it might also be a bit of "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

[frankchen]

Great lecture! I am also a student in CMU. After listen this, I felt more clear about the distributed system.

[ralhamami]

Thank you so much for the whole series Chris! You're the man! Looking forward to your future uploads. :)

[Sampsadellic]

You rock! Thank you for taking the time to make this course!

[ugob]

Congrats Chris, all your explanations are concise clear and you did an excellent job with the Byz prob. Let us know what we can do to support this channel and for you to continue this

[romandzhadan]

Thank you, Christopher, great video!

[pablomarti]

Thank you! Just starting, I like the way you explain!

[AhPickles]

Really great course; thanks for doing this!

[daothanhbinh]

Thank you so much for making this who course <3

[duitwithnurul]

Thank you so much! U definitely deserve more viewers and subscribers

[abhishek-]

Hello Chris, this is a great series! I have a question: can 1-tier architecture or 2-tier architecture systems be distributed or distributed systems means >=3-tier architecture?

[sundramgoyal]

Thank you so much for making this video

[akhileshpips]

haha last analogy is excellent! good examples sir

[jonathanphilippou]

Is my Hearthstone deck a distributed system?

[tr]

The guy worked at google he knows his stuff.

[sagarpanwar]

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