See also: Collaboration | Network | Replication
Distribution is the act of offloading, or decentralizing the workload from a central core to a set of other sources, usually remote. Distribution paths often form networks, packet traffic or bandwidth. Computer networks, like this, including the internet, may suffer from overhead, leeching and bottlenecks.
Digitalisation allows for greater distribution performance. Distribution helps with collaborative bug/exploit discovery and other troubleshooting, moderation, etc. It is often done for performance reasons, or in the case of Gnutella to remove the central body to harden the system against attack.
Distribution is also use alongside flavor when describing an operating system variant, see BSD Distributions and Linux Distributions.
Examples
- Distributed computing
- Distributed denial of service
- Distributed hash table
- Distributed filesystem
- Distributed file sharing
- Distributed file storage
- Distributed moderation
- Distributed proxy
Related Topics
TakeDown.NET -> “Distribution”