Distributed Computing

Fallacies of distribution computing

Attributed to L Peter Deutsch and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems.

  • Network is reliable.
  • Latency is zero.
  • Bandwidth is infinite.
  • Network is secure.
  • Topology does not change.
  • There is one administrator.
  • Transport cost is zero.
  • Network is homogeneous.

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