Fallacies of distributed computing

The fallacies of distributed computing 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. These result either in the failure of the system, a substantial reduction in system scope, or in large, unplanned expenses required to redesign the system to meet its original goals.

The fallacies are:

The list of fallacies generally came about at Sun Microsystems. L. Peter Deutsch, one of the original Sun "Fellows", is credited with penning the first seven fallacies in 1994; however, Bill Joy and Tom Lyon had already identified the first four as "The Fallacies of Networked Computing" (the article claims "Dave Lyon", but this is a mistake). Around 1997, James Gosling, another Sun Fellow and the inventor of Java, added the eighth fallacy.

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