ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Distributed scaffolding

Imagine you and your friend want to build a really tall tower with lots of floors. You can't reach those high spots where you need to work, so you decide to use a scaffolding – which is like a ladder that's stuck to the side of the building – to help you reach them.

But, what if you want to build a different tower on the other side of town with more friends, and there's only one scaffolding? That's where a distributed scaffolding comes in!

Distributed scaffolding is kind of like having a bunch of ladders all over the place. Instead of having just one big scaffold on one side of the building, you have small ladders all over the building so everyone can work at the same time, building different parts of the tower, much faster and more efficiently. This way everyone can work together and build multiple towers at the same time using multiple ladders.

In computer terms, it's like having different computers working together on different parts of a project, sharing resources and data, instead of having one big computer doing everything on its own. Just like the ladders are spread out to cover more ground, the different computers are in different locations working together as one team.

So, distributed scaffolding is all about making work easier and more efficient by spreading out resources and allowing multiple people to work on different parts of a project at the same time, just like having lots of ladders all over a building for everyone to use.