July 23, 2014 Volume 12, issue 7 PDF The Network is Reliable An informal survey of real-world communications failures Peter Bailis, UC Berkeley Kyle Kingsbury, Jepsen Networks "The network is reliable" tops Peter Deutsch's classic list, "Eight fallacies of distributed computing" (https://blogs.oracle.com/jag/resource/Fallacies.html), "all [of which] prove to be false in the long run and all [of wh