The document discusses the implementation of a distributed system for a retail store, highlighting benefits such as scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. It also outlines design considerations like data consistency and load balancing, as well as security measures including encryption and access control. Additionally, it explains how web servers utilize processes and threads to manage multiple client requests concurrently, emphasizing the advantages of isolation and resource sharing.
The document discusses the implementation of a distributed system for a retail store, highlighting benefits such as scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. It also outlines design considerations like data consistency and load balancing, as well as security measures including encryption and access control. Additionally, it explains how web servers utilize processes and threads to manage multiple client requests concurrently, emphasizing the advantages of isolation and resource sharing.
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The document discusses the implementation of a distributed system for a retail store, highlighting benefits such as scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. It also outlines design considerations like data consistency and load balancing, as well as security measures including encryption and access control. Additionally, it explains how web servers utilize processes and threads to manage multiple client requests concurrently, emphasizing the advantages of isolation and resource sharing.
The document discusses the implementation of a distributed system for a retail store, highlighting benefits such as scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. It also outlines design considerations like data consistency and load balancing, as well as security measures including encryption and access control. Additionally, it explains how web servers utilize processes and threads to manage multiple client requests concurrently, emphasizing the advantages of isolation and resource sharing.
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GHANA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEM.
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS.
Title: Title of Work…. DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM MIDSEM
By Name… Mac dickson dziedorm Index no:4231230260
Lecturer’s name Edmund Tordan
1. A leading retail store offering clothes, shoes, and accessories online has several branches all over the country. You have been asked to provide consulting advice for the consideration of implementing a distributed system by the management of the store.
1.Benefits that the company would achieve by implementing the distributed system: 1. Scalability: Using or implementing Distributed systems in the management of the store help can and also handle an increasing number of transactions smoothly as the business grows. 2.Performance: Using Distributed systems can help balance the work among multiple servers, improving the overall performance and response time fo each severs as time goes on. 3.Cost-Effectiveness: Using distributed system in the store can help improve resource usage and reduce costs tied with hardware and maintenance issues. 4.Flexibility: Using distributed system can help the store integrate various applications and facilities across different areas, providing a smooth user experience and operation.
ii. Design consideration issues that the management should ensure that they are in place 1. Data Consistency: Deploy framworks to ensure that data remains consistent across all distributed points to prevent data mishandling. 2. Load Balancing: Plan a system that can proficiently distribute the job demands among servers to avoid overloading any single nodes. 3. Network Latency: Reducing the delay in data transmission between different parts of the distributed system can help in design consideration. 4. compatibility: Ensuring that different components of the design system can communicate and work together seamlessly to aviod destructions in the improvement of the system.
iii Security measures that should be put in place to protect data and the system:** 1. Encryption: Using encryption protocols to protect data during transmission and storage. 2. Access Control: Implementing strong authentication and authorization mechanisms to restrict access to sensitive data and systems. 3.Backup and Recovery:implementing and Establishing robust backup and recovery procedures to ensure data can be restored and accesed in case of loss or corruption.
2. Web servers often employ a combination of processes and threads to handle multiple client requests concurrently. How do processes and threads handle these requests? Processes: -isolation:Each process runs in its own memory space, providing isolation and reducing the risk of one process affecting another. This isolation enhances security and stability. -Multi-Processing: Web servers can create multiple processes to handle simultaneous requests, ensuring that each request is handled by a separate process. This approach is useful for handling intensive tasks.
Threads: Lightweight: Threads are more lightweight than processes and share the same memory space, making them faster to create and manage operations effectively. Concurrency:By using multiple threads within a single process, web servers can handle different client requests simultaneously, improving flexibility and throughput. Resource Sharing: Threads can easily share Important resource such as memory and files within the same process, making communication and data sharing more efficiently and smooth.
