Introduction

Introduction #

In the meantime, there are several distributed systems. The blockchain technologies are only the newest ones. There are for example still:

  • Distributed file system (e.g. Hadoop, NFS, CIFS, AFP).
  • Peer to peer video platform (e.g. PeerTube).
  • Federated short message service (e.g. Mastodon)
  • Email
  • Internet (web server)
  • DNS
  • Distributed Hash Tables (e.g. Kademlia, Chord, TomP2P, Paxos, Raft)
  • BitTorrent
  • Software updates in Windows 10 and some games
  • Browser Peer to Peer via WebRTC (video telephony, chat etc.)
  • Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (e.g. gRPC, Apache Avro)
  • Peer to Peer Internet (e.g. Tor)
  • Message Queue (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Qpid, ZeroMQ, Kafka)
  • Hierarchical key-value-store (e.g. Apache ZooKeeper)

I will describe some as exam preparation. Much material can be found on Maarten van Steen’s website.

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