Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Thought it would be good to copy these elsewhere, in case the original was ever lost.

http://weblogs.java.net/jag/Fallacies.html



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

Comments

Anonymous said…
you were right. The original was lost indeed. Thanks for thinking it through.

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