Not sure if I'm being trolled... It finds a remote machine by name, and routes a connection to it. It authenticates and establishes a secure connection with the machine. It sends a command to the remote machine, the remote machine executes it, and the result is returned. It then puts the result into a form that can be used programmatically by the local shell.
> That was a quick response to what I thought would be better than administrating a UNIX system on an Amazon machine.
It was content-free.
> Don't be an ass.
What's good for the goose...
> I've no experience with the real distributed computing systems created before UNIX.
And already the expert. Impressive.
> No, that's the vapid marketing pitch.
No, that's the reality. That's why Amazon, Google, Azure, and everybody else offer it in their clouds and use it on their internal infrastructure.
> The Linux kernel randomly kills processes when it starts exhausting memory. It's garbage.
I'll take that over "running little functions floating in the void", it actually exists and works.