Revisiting the Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Decades ago, Peter Deutsch and others codified the Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing. Despite our modern cloud abstractions, these fallacies are more relevant than ever.

When you split a monolith into microservices, you introduce the network into every interaction. This post explores practical strategies for handling network partitions, implementing retries with exponential backoff, and using circuit breakers to prevent cascading failures.