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Reprint: 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Dec 9, 2003

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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    nn

  1. The network is reliable

    2. n

  2. Latency is zero

    3. n

  3. Bandwidth is infinite

    4. n

  4. The network is secure

    5. n

  5. Topology doesn’t change

    6. n

  6. There is one administrator

    7. n

  7. Transport cost is zero

    8. n

  8. The network is homogeneous

    9. n