RFC 1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths

Found this via Dave’s blog and the source article is a wonderful read that starts like this:

This memo documents the fundamental truths of networking for the Internet community. This memo does not specify a standard, except in the sense that all standards must implicitly follow the fundamental truths.

What follows is a number of half truths, half jokes, informed by years of experience. Like this one:

(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea.

A number of these truths, rules, whatever they are, I encountered just this week. In fact, I see many of them every week:

(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea.

And

(8) It is more complicated than you think.

A great read.