What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

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When the Friday night crowd lines up or the Sunday brunch groups file in, the last thing a manager wants to worry about is whether the point-of-sale (POS) system will crash. Yet, for many ...