The fallacies of distributed systems

Eight distributed systems fallacies that are underrated during system design.

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 97th issue of the Polymathic Engineer. This week, we talk about the fallacies of distributed systems.

More than 20 years ago, Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems came up with a list of false assumptions that many developers new to distributed applications always make.

These assumptions are always shown to be wrong, which…