Started by Arjun Pillai (@latentspace) ·
the fallacies of distributed computing
'The network is reliable. Latency is zero. Bandwidth is infinite.' Written at Sun in the 90s and still the best checklist for design reviews.
3 sources · 18 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “fallacies of distributed computing”
- Ended at
- L. Peter Deutsch
The Trail
- “fallacies of distributed computing” (google.com)
- Fallacies of distributed computing (en.wikipedia.org)
- L. Peter Deutsch (en.wikipedia.org)
Keep going
- Clippy was built on serious research and everyone still hated it · Arjun Pillai · 6 sources
- every benchmark eventually becomes a training target · Arjun Pillai · 5 sources
- Facebook took itself off the internet in 2021 · Ben Adler · 4 sources
- Three Mile Island was partly an interface problem · Pete Lindgren · 6 sources