Sun Microsystems; creator of Ghostscript

L. Peter Deutsch

Deutsch, with colleagues at Sun, listed the false assumptions engineers make about networks, still the best checklist for distributed design.

Essential reading: The Fallacies of Distributed Computing
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No. 025Distributed Systems & Data
Fallacies of Distributed Computing
The network is not reliable, latency is not zero, and bandwidth is not infinite. Design as if you know it.