Seven Fallacies of Distributed Computing

These common fallacies were proposed by Peter Deutsch (not Peter Deutsch 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. The network topology will not change.
6. There is a single administrator.
7. Transport cost is zero.

James Gosling, another Sun Fellow and the inventor of Java, supposedly added the eighth fallacy:

1. The network is homogenous.

See also

• Distributed computing