《分布式系统》研究生课件chapter_1 Introduction.pptVIP

* * Figure 1-11. Middleware as a communication facilitator in enterprise application integration. Scaling Techniques Example(1) Technique: Offload work to clients Scaling Techniques Example(2) Technique: Divide the problem space. example: the way DNS divides the name space into zones. Scaling – The Problem Observation: Applying scaling techniques is easy, except for one thing: Having multiple copies (cached or replicated), leads to inconsistencies: modifying one copy makes that copy different from the rest. Always keeping copies consistent and in a general way requires global synchronization