Is there an understanding of the principles of distributed systems development?

Principles of distributed systems development include:

• Reliability and fault tolerance: the system should continue to operate in the event of individual component failures.
• Scalability: the ability to increase resources without significantly degrading performance.
• Data consistency: choosing a consistency model (e.g., strong, eventual) based on requirements.
• Responsibility separation: microservices or modules with clearly defined tasks.
• Handling network failures: retries, timeouts, idempotency of operations.
• Security: authentication, authorization, data encryption.

For example, when designing a distributed cache, it is important to consider how data updates will be synchronized between nodes to avoid inconsistencies and ensure high availability.