The eight fallacies of distributed systems come from different engineers at Sun Microsystems.
The first four are from Bill Joy and Tom Lyon (co-founders of Sun). Five, six, and 7 come from L. Peter Deutsch (designer of PostScript). The last is attributed to James Gosling (lead designer of Java).
- The network is reliable
- Latency is zero
- Bandwidth is infinite
- The network is secure
- Topology doesn't change
- There is one administrator
- Transport cost is zero
- The network is homogenous
Some other lists:
- Falsehoods programmers believe about names
- Falsehoods programmers believe about networks
- Falsehoods programmers believe about time
- Falsehoods programmers believe about CSVs
- Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
- Falsehoods programmers believe about search
- Falsehoods programmers believe about web development