Distributed computing Terminology

Resilient:

Elastic:

Fault Tolerable:

Replication

shard

Fail Over Mechanism:

Auto Scaling:

Consistency:

Absolute Consistency Vs Eventual Consistency

Tunable Consistency

Horizontal Vs Vertical Scaling

Peer to Peer:

Reliable Delivery

QoS Quality of Services:

Consistence Hashing:

Partitioning:

RF: Replication Factor:

Replication Strategies:

Check-points