The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing#

Peter Deutsch

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

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

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