In this article, we explore the design principles, innovations, and challenges addressed by three representative distributed file systems: Google File System (GFS), Tectonic, and JuiceFS.

Azure as a distributed systems platform Microsoft’s Azure drives work in distributed system design, powering services built around stateless microservices.

In contrast to centralized systems, distributed software systems add a new layer of complexity to the already difficult problem of software design. In spite of that and for a variety of reasons, more ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

The Computer Science Department will sponsor a poster session on May 1, 2018 featuring a number of topics, including: distributed applications, games, cryptocurrencies, and network analysis.

How event-driven design can overcome the challenges of coordinating multiple AI agents to create scalable and efficient reasoning systems.

The post provides an interesting analysis of impact of distributed systems design approaches on the coupling of the resulting systems. Unfortunately not all of Ian’s conclusions seem to be correct.