Explain major distributed platform areas and its algorithm strengths and weakness
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Distributed platforms are an area of computer science which studies distributed systems. It is a system whose parts are located on varied computer networks, they coordinate and communicate their individual processes by exchanging messages with one another.
All the components work with each another so that they can reach a common goal. The three outstanding characteristics of distributed systems include independent components failure, components concurrency and lack of a global clock.
The algorithms of this type of system include client-server, three-tier, n-tier and peer-to-peer.
The strengths of major distributed platforms include
(i) economics,
(ii) inherent distribution
(iii) incremental growth
(iv) speed and
(v) reliability.
The weaknesses of the system are
(i) network
(ii) security
(iii) software
(iv) more component failure.