Reprint: 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing
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These turned up on the Risks digest mailing list today. L. Peter Deutsch collected some and wrote others circa 1991. Everyone working on distributed systems should commit them memory…
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The network is reliable
Latency is zero
Bandwidth is infinite
The network is secure
Topology doesn’t change
There is one administrator
Transport cost is zero
The network is homogeneous
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