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A distributed system must assume there is no upper bound whatsoever on how long a message can take to cross the network.

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  1. Martin Kleppmann

    Computer science researcher at Cambridge

    we just assume that there's no upper bound on how long it might take for a message to go over the network. So, you send a message, it might arrive within 100 microseconds, or it might take 10 years.

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