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Fallacies of Distributed Computing

The classic false assumptions — the network is reliable, latency is zero, bandwidth is infinite, topology doesn't change, and so on — that make naive distributed designs fail. Every resilience pattern (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers) exists because one of these assumptions is false.

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The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing in Software Architecture

The fallacies of distributed computing are eight false assumptions, catalogued by Peter Deutsch and colleagues, that engineers implicitly carry over from single-process programming when designing sys…