21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

jrpelkonen

In this instance latency must’ve been 10 years, per my memory this paper came out in 1994

zephen

On the one hand, the list isn't wrong. On the other hand, more fortunes have been made by assuming that physics will catch up (closely enough, anyway) to computational needs, than by assuming that every byte and every cycle and every nanosecond matters.

randfur

Do people actually believe these dot points or are they just out of scope for most applications to tackle beyond letting the user try again?

rusk

This article reiterates a lot of the Wikipedia stuff, while contradicting the main extant source which is Deutsch himself ( https://se-radio.net/2021/07/episode-470-l-peter-deutsch-on-... ). Nobody really knows who wrote the first four fallacies. They were just floating around it is Deutsch who pinned them down and it was Gosling’s endorsement that made them into the shibboleth that they are.

aussieguy1234

This is highly relevant to the recent craze over microservices, which has settled down now (after un-neccasarily complicating systems at multiple companies).