Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed application, makes the following
eight assumptions. All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble
and painful learning experiences.
- 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 homogeneous
Source: java.sun.com/people/jag/Fallacies.html