Centralized Coordination
Centralized coordination is a system design approach where a single central authority or component manages and orchestrates the activities, resources, and communication among distributed parts of a system. It ensures consistency, simplifies decision-making, and provides a unified view of the system state. This concept is widely applied in distributed computing, microservices architectures, and workflow management.
Developers should learn centralized coordination when building systems that require strict consistency, fault tolerance, or complex orchestration, such as in distributed databases, microservices with service discovery, or batch processing pipelines. It is particularly useful in scenarios where a single point of control can prevent conflicts, manage resources efficiently, and simplify debugging and monitoring compared to decentralized approaches.