Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (The more things change the more they stay the same)

Rotem-Gal-Oz, A. (1997). Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (The more things change the more they stay the same).

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

1997

Link

https://arnon.me/wp-content/uploads/Files/fallacies.pdf

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Domain-specific

• Fallacy of One Administrator
  • And in the classic "Fallacies of Distributed Computing" (Deutsch, Gosling et al.), this is the sixth and most organizational member — "there is one administrator."

    This sourceSource of the sibling enumeration, whose wording and order the sentence follows exactly; the physical-versus-administrative reading of the list and its consequence are the article's own.

• Fallacy of Zero Latency
  • The fallacy travels especially cleanly because it is one of a recognized family — the Fallacies of Distributed Computing (the Deutsch–Gosling set) — and shares its skeleton with the sibling fallacies (infinite bandwidth, zero transport cost) that make the same move on a different idealized network property

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