The 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing

10 Mar
2010
  1. The network is reliable
  2. Latency is zero
  3. Bandwidth is infinite
  4. The network is secure
  5. Topology doesn’t change
  6. There is one administrator
  7. Transport cost is zero
  8. The network is homogeneous

Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed application, makes the above eight assumptions. All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble and painful learning experiences. (Peter Deutsch)

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