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Sunday, March 18, 2012

fallacies of distributed computing

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 homogenous.

via lonesysadmin.net

A good list to always keep in mind. :)

Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM | Permalink

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Posted by: WAN optimization | Monday, March 26, 2012 at 03:38 AM

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