1. The network is unreliable

2. Latency is non-zero

3. Bandwidth is definite

4. The network is unsecure

5. Topology does change

6. There are multiple administrators

7. Transport cost is non-zero

8. The network is heterogeneous

Network Terms

We define the term High Availability in the common colloquial sense found in the database community where a database is highly available if it can fail over to an active replica on the fly with no downtime, rather than the definition of high availability used in the CAP theorem which requires that even minority replicas remain available during a network partition.

Data Integrity guarantees Not the Data Availability Gguarantees

Network Axioms

Data = Time

Data = Immutable

Time == Immutable

Latency != Availability

The structure of any system designed by an organization is isomorphic to the structure of the organization.

When a settled system is disturbed, it will adjust to diminish the change that has been made to it. Any change in status quo prompts an opposing reaction in the responding system.

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

source for "Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing"

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