Architecture Notes — System Design &  Software Development

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Fallacies of Distributed Systems

Fallacies of distributed systems are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.

Mahdi Yusuf
Jun 04, 2022
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The mass adoption of microservices has forced more engineers to understand the implications of that decision within their systems.

I often see these 8 fallacies generally ignored or downplayed when discussing system design.

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