The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
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A compact list of eight concrete claims — latency is zero, bandwidth is infinite, the network is secure — backed by specifics: a backhoe and sharks severing fiber, Spread Networks spending millions to shave milliseconds, TIBCO’s FTL implementation to hit sub‑microsecond messaging at high engineering cost, heartbleed and large breaches leaking millions of accounts, Netflix paying ISPs for better transport, and Terry Childs walking away with router passwords, all showing what was built and whether it actually worked.
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- 0:00About Stephen Asbury
- 0:40History - Wikipedia Style
- 1:57The Network Is Reliable
- 4:36Latency Is Zero
- 9:59Bandwidth Is Infinite
- 13:56The Network is Secure
- 16:01Topology Doesn't change
- 19:14There is One Administrator
- 22:21Transport Cost is Zero V
- 26:27The Network is Homogeneous
- 28:45The Eight Fallacies
- 29:47In The Real World
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