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.
| 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 |
| For more details, read the
article
by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz |
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