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. There is a single administrator.
2. The network topology will not change.
3. The network is reliable.
4. The network is secure.
5. Latency is very small.
6. Bandwidth is very large.
7. Transport cost is very small.

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

1. The network is homogenous.

See also

• Distributed computing