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Difficulties Designing Distributed Systems

Understand why designing distributed systems is challenging by exploring key issues like network asynchrony, partial component failures, and concurrency. This lesson helps you recognize the complexities and guides you in anticipating problems to design more reliable systems.

Why distributed systems are hard to design

In general, distributed systems are hard to design, build, and reason about. This increases the risk of error.

It’s worth questioning this: why are distributed systems so hard to design? The answer to this question will help us eliminate our blind spots, and provide guidance on some aspects we should pay attention to.

Give it a try yourself. Think why are distributed systems so hard to design. Write your answer in the widget provided below with proper reasoning.

Why are distributed systems so hard to design?

Properties that make distributed systems challenging

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