Distributed System

• A distributed system is a group of autonomous computers working together in coordination as to appear as a single computer to the end-user.
• It is designed to tolerate failures of individual computers, so the remaining computers keep working and provide services to the users.

Different Types of Distributed System Architecture

• Client-Server
• Three-tier
• N-tier
• Peer-to-peer
• Micro Service Architecture (MSA)
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Client-Server

Client-Server is a distributed architecture and has one or more client computers connected to a central server over a network or internet connection. The server hosts, manages and delivers most of the resources and services required for the client to consume.

N-tier