What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

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A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

Maya is VP Product at Helios, a dev-first observability platform that helps dev and ops teams improve the reliability of distributed apps. Distributed tracing, a technique used to identify performance ...