All of us come into contact with distributed systems almost

All of us come into contact with distributed systems almost every day , even if it is only while shopping at walmart or Sear. Describe a distributed System with which you have come in contact. In your view what are the advantages and disadvantages of this system ? Is the system you have described a client/server system?

Solution

World Wide Web is a biggest example of a distributed system. Distributed system is a collection of many independent computers that appears to the users of the system as a single coherent system. Sharing of resources is the main motivation behind distributed system.

Advantages

Disadvantages

World Wide Web is a client server system. Servers are the provider of resources and clients are the service requester. A server host may run one or more server program. They share their resources with clients. A client does not share any of its resources, but requests a server\'s content.