The Fallacies of Distributed Computing are a set of common but flawed assumptions made by programmers when first developing distributed applications. The fallacies are summarized as follows [1]:

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.

You mean to tell me that none of these things are true?!?!  Dang, thanks for the heads up, Wikipedia authors!  File under “Good to Know.”  (also, add to “To Do” list:  “Completely Re-Think Approach to App Development.”)

On-demand grid computing/supercomputing == Cloud Computing?

Articles:

• The Network Is the Computer…(Is the Network, Is the Computer…) (Christofer Hoff, “Rational Survivability” blog)

• Cloud Computing: Invented By Criminals, Secured By ??? (Christofer Hoff, “Rational Survivability” blog)
• Fraud-as-a-service: Did Criminals Invent Cloud Computing? (Reuven Cohen, “ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud” blog)
• Cloud computing: Swarm Intelligence and Security in a Distributed World (Amrit Williams Blog)

• The Truth About Software as a Service (SaaS) (Galen Gruman, CIO magazine, May 21, 2007)