Enterprise Level Features

enterprise level!

feature 1

concurrency - lots of things happen simultaneously

feature 2

distance - some operations are faster than others

feature 3

distribution - some data is local, some is remote

feature 4

points of failure - resolve single point of failure, there’s more to go wrong

feature 5

bottlenecks - any limited resource will eventually limit everything

feature 6

administration - no single source of authority

capability 1

can be faster overall

capability 2

doesn’t die all at once

capability 3

not all failures need to be fatal

capability 4

limited resources can often be identified and removed

capability 5

no administrative bottleneck

problem 1

harder to control

problem 2

its often impossible to locate the real source of a problem

problem 3

data may not all be available

problem 4

one mistake can be fatal

problem 5

changes happen without notice