fallacies of distributed computing

The Fallacies of Distributed Computing are a list of fallacies written by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems regarding false assumptions commonly made by developers regarding distributed systems.

These fallicies are:

1. The network is reliable.
2. Latency is zero.
3. Bandwidth is infinite.
4. The network is secure.
5. Topology does not change.
6. There is one administrator.
7. Transport cost is zero.
8. The network is homogenous.

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