===== Distributed System =====
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A **Distributed System** (**Distributed Computing** and **Distributed Database**), in its most simplest definition, is a group of computers communicating through messages working together to behave as a single computer to the end-user.

These machines have a shared state, operate concurrently and can fail independently without affecting the whole system’s uptime.

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