Yesterday I was attempting to relax by browsing random things on the internet (usually a mistake, I know), and I stumbled upon an awesome white paper by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz about the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing.  These are so obvious yet so profound I couldn’t help but write up a quick blog post about them.  They’re especially relevant for modern day build engineers and tools developers — certainly relevant to the Build Automation Team at Unity.

I encourage you to go read the white paper if interested (or even the blog post series that the white paper is based on), but I will summarize them here.

1. The network is reliable
2. Latency is zero
3. Bandwidth is infinite
4. The network is secure
5. Topology doesn’t change
6. There is one administrator
7. Transport cost is zero
8. The network is homogeneous