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Navigating the 8 fallacies of distributed computing

What's this blog post about?

The Fallacies of Distributed Computing are a set of eight assumptions that can lead to failure in distributed systems. These fallacies include the belief that 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, and the network is homogeneous. Understanding these fallacies can help architects and developers build dependable distributed systems by expecting and preparing for their opposite conditions.

Company
Ably

Date published
June 21, 2021

Author(s)
Alex Diaconu

Word count
3018

Language
English

Hacker News points
3


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