The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Almost everyone, when they first start building a distributed application, make the following eight assumptions. All are proven to be false in the long run and cause trouble and painful learning experiences:

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

Keep the points above in mind when you design a distributed application. They are fallacies that increase the maintenance costs of your distributed application.