Apa wae tantangan utama sistem terdistribusi?

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**Sistem terdistribusi** (akeh komputer kang kerja bareng liwat jaringan) ndadekake tantangan signifikan kang ora ana ing sistem mesin tunggal — ketidakandalan jaringan, kegagalan parsial, konsistensi, koordinasi, lan liya-liyane. Pemahaman babagan iki penting kanggo ngrancang sistem ing skala gedhe.

## Mengapa sistem terdistribusi iku angel

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Multiple machines communicating over a NETWORK introduce fundamental challenges:
  → the NETWORK is unreliable (latency, packet loss, partitions) and not instant
  → PARTIAL FAILURES → some parts fail while others work (vs all-or-nothing on one machine)
  → no shared memory/clock → coordination is hard
→ "the network is reliable" etc. are FALLACIES — distributed systems break these assumptions.
```

## Tantangan utama

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NETWORK → unreliable, variable latency, partitions (can't assume messages arrive/are fast)
PARTIAL FAILURE → handle some components failing (detect, retry, recover); is it down or slow?
CONSISTENCY → keeping data consistent across nodes (CAP trade-offs; eventual consistency)
COORDINATION → consensus, distributed agreement, leader election (hard; e.g. Raft/Paxos)
ORDERING/time → no global clock; event ordering across nodes is hard
CONCURRENCY → many things happening at once; race conditions across nodes
IDEMPOTENCY → handle duplicate messages/retries safely
```

## Implikasi kanggo desain

```text
✓ DESIGN FOR FAILURE (failures are normal); embrace eventual consistency where acceptable
✓ Use proven patterns/tools (don't reinvent consensus — use Raft-based systems, etc.)
✓ Make operations IDEMPOTENT (retries are inevitable); handle duplicates/out-of-order
✓ Expect and handle network issues (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers)
✓ Understand the TRADE-OFFS (CAP, consistency vs availability)
→ distributed systems are powerful (scale, resilience) but fundamentally harder.
```

## Mengapa iki penting

Nemahami tantangan utama sistem terdistribusi iku pengetahuan level senior penting amarga **sistem skala gedhe modern iku terdistribusi**, lan tantangan-tantangan iki iku fundamental lan asring diremehake, mula pemahaman babagane iku penting kanggo ngrancang sistem ing skala gedhe.

Sistem terdistribusi (akeh mesin kang kerja bareng liwat jaringan) ngenalake **tantangan fundamental kang ora ana ing mesin tunggal** — lan nemahami *mengapa iki angel* iku penting: jaringan ora bisa dipercaya (latency, partisi, ora langsung), **kegagalan parsial** kedadeyan (sawetara bagean gagal semono dene bagean liya tetep jalan, kalebu masalah angel mbedakne apa iku mati utawa mung alon), lan ora ana memori bareng utawa jam (nggawe koordinasi angel).

"Fallacies of distributed computing" kang terkenal (nganggep jaringan andal, latency nol, etc.) cetha carane sistem iki mbaleni asumsi-asumsi naif.

Nemahami **tantangan utama** — ketidakandalan jaringan, penanganan kegagalan parsial, **konsistensi** (CAP trade-offs), **koordinasi/consensus** (persetujuan terdistribusi, pemilihan leader — masalah kang benere angel kaya Raft/Paxos), urutan lan wektu (ora ana jam global), konkurensi lintas node, lan **idempotency** (nangani duplikasi pesan lan retry) — iku kesadaran penting kanggo sapa waé kang ngrancang sistem terdistribusi, amarga tantangan-tantangan iki nyebabke bug nyata lan kegagalan kang halus.

Nemahami **implikasi kanggo desain** — ngrancang kanggo kegagalan, nampa eventual consistency yen bisa, nggunakake pola lan tool kang udah terbukti (ora nginovasi consensus), gawe operasi **idempotent** (amarga retry iku pasti), nangani masalah jaringan, lan pemahaman babagan trade-offs — ngrembaka carane bener-benere gawe sistem terdistribusi kang bisa jalan wis ana tantangan-tantangan iki.

Insight utama iku sistem terdistribusi iku kuwat (ngaktifake skala lan resiliensi) nanging benere angel, lan nremehake iki nyebabke sistem kang rusak.

Kamretna sistem skala gedhe modern iku terdistribusi lan tantangan-tantangan (ketidakandalan jaringan, kegagalan parsial, konsistensi, koordinasi, idempotency) iku fundamental lan asring diremehake, lan amarga nemahami iki lan implikasi desaine iku penting kanggo ngbangun sistem kang bisa jalan ing skala gedhe, nemahami tantangan sistem terdistribusi iku pengetahuan level senior penting — penting kanggo ngrancang sistem terdistribusi kang skala modern ngajurake, ngrembaka kesadaran babagan kesulitan fundamental kang asring diremehake (jaringan, kegagalan parsial, konsistensi, koordinasi), lan pusat ing keahlian level senior kang dibutuhake kanggo ngbangun sistem skala gedhe kang kokoh.