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One of the major problems with building a distributed system is that it’s distributed. This means that the parts of the system need to talk to each other. Of course, these days, networks are viewed by most large network operators (e.g. universities) as hostile environments, where anything even remotely risky is split out, preferably into its own little subnet.
These two facts make it…
One of the major problems with building a distributed system is that it’s distributed. This means that the parts of the system need to talk to each other. Of course, these days, networks are viewed by most large network operators (e.g. universities) as hostile environments, where anything even remotely risky is split out, preferably into its own little subnet.
These two facts make it very difficult to deploy wide-ranging distributed systems, because the components of the distributed application have to be designed with a degree of security in mind from the outset (which many are not), and because the corporate mind-set of network management is against the distribution of systems across the network – because these distributed systems forge connections between the firewalled subnets of the organisation.Read on /posts/75/ ↗
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