Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Fallacies of distributed computing - Wikipedia

A set of false assumptions made by programmers new to distributed applications, originally listed by L. Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems.

The originally listed fallacies are:

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;