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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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- 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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