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The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing

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.


* 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

— Peter Deutsch