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Seven Fallacies of Distributed Computing

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These fallacies were created by Peter Deutsch (not the politician), one of Sun Microsystems' original fellows. A retrospective article about these fallacies can be found here.

  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
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