24/7 availability:

• Maintain operations across different time zones
• Perform maintenance without complete system shutdown

Big data processing:

• Handle and analyze massive datasets that don't fit on a single machine
• Perform complex analytics across distributed data stores

Real-time processing:

• Handle high-velocity data streams (e.g., IoT sensor data, financial transactions)
• Provide quick responses to user requests or system events

Specialized task distribution:

• Allocate specific tasks to machines optimized for those operations
• balance workload based on machine capabilities