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jcorgan on Nostr: Fallacies of distributed computing: The network is reliable. Latency is zero. ...

Fallacies of distributed computing:

The network is reliable.
Latency is zero.
Bandwidth is infinite.
The network is secure.
Topology doesn't change.
There is one administrator.
Transport cost is zero.
The network is homogeneous.

- L. Peter Deutsch, Sun Microsystems, 1994.