Distrubed Systems

Question 1

Testing Distributed Systems:

How would you test a distributed system?

Question 2

Testing Distributed Systems:

How would you test a distributed system?

Question 3

Pitfalls of RPC:

What are the general pitfalls of remote procedure calls?

Question 4

Design of Distributed Systems:

If you are building a distributed system for scalability and robustness, what are the different things you’d think of if you are working in a closed and secure network environment versus when you are working in a geographically distributed and public system?

Question 5

Fault Tolerance:

How would you manage fault tolerance in a web application? What about a desktop one?

Question 6

Failures:

How would you deal with failures in a distributed system?

Question 7

Network Partitions:

Let’s talk about the several approaches to reconciliation after network partitions.

Question 8

Fallacies of Distributed Computing:

What are the fallacies of distributed computing?

Question 9

Request/Reply vs Publish/Subscribe:

When would you use request/reply and when publish/subscribe?

Question 10

Request/Reply vs Publish/Subscribe:

When would you use request/reply and when publish/subscribe?