More than 20 years ago, Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems came up with a list of false assumptions that many developers new to distributed

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2024-11-15 15:30:07

More than 20 years ago, Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems came up with a list of false assumptions that many developers new to distributed applications always make.

These assumptions are always shown to be wrong, which makes bugs hard to fix. We are going to look at these eight fallacies in more depth here.

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Indeed, networks are inherently unreliable: packets can be dropped, connections can be interrupted, and data can become corrupted during transmission. And that's just the beginning.

To build a robust system, we need to accept and plan for these potential failures. An effective strategy is to put in place retransmission mechanisms. The store and forward pattern is a common way to do this.

Instead of directly sending data to a downstream server, we can store it locally or in an intermediate location. This allows for retries and provides some ways to get back on track in catastrophic scenarios where a simple retry loop wouldn't work.