The Basics — Fallacies of Distributed Systems
5 min readJan 10, 2020
The fallacies of distributed computing or distributed systems are a collection of eight statements made by L. Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems about false assumptions people new to developing distributed applications make. Here’s the list of 8 fallacies of distributed systems:
- Network is reliable
- Latency is zero
- Infinite bandwidth
- Network is secure
- Topology does not change
- There is one administrator
