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Does distributed always mean a complex multi-tier web application?


No. That's only one example, depending on how the website is setup, but they're not limited to that. A distributed system is one that requires coordination among multiple machines to execute a task or set of tasks. A few examples:

- A website using a load balancer to offset service to multiple machines

- A hadoop cluster running a series of mapreduce tasks

- A botnet setup to DDOS some target




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