A Note on Distributed Computing

Jim Waldo, G. W., Wollrath, A., & Kendall, S. (1994). A Note on Distributed Computing.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1994

Link

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/waldo/files/waldo-94.pdf

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Primes

• Unverified Precondition
  • Distributed systems. A call presumes a service is reachable; partition, crash, or DNS failure makes it absent at this moment, and vanished cloud resources, dropped queue messages, and expired tokens are the same shape.

    This sourceArgues remote references differ fundamentally from local ones because partial failure (partition, crash, latency) makes a presumed-reachable service absent at the moment of call.

Domain-specific

• Distributed Object
  • Waldo and colleagues' classic critique is load-bearing: local and distributed interactions cannot form one transparent ontological class because the network boundary changes what a caller can know and what failures can occur.

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