Eight Fallacies Revisited
- By Matt Stephens
- March 23, 2006
Back in November, I blogged Peter Deutsch’s Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing. Given the journey to work that I face each morning, I might also offer some fallacies of distributed commuting (see what I did there?):
- The rail network is reliable
- The journey will always be quick
- Your patience is infinite
- The underground is secure
- Topology doesn’t change
- There is one optimum route
- Transport cost won’t severely harm your bank balance
- "All our lines are running a good service" doesn’t just mean "the system isn’t horribly broken today"
Apologies to the US readers (which I believe is something like 98% of you), but as I just got home from another "fun" journey on the over-crowded, stinky London Underground (along with 3million other lucky travelers each day), this list seemed kind of appropriate... :)