I really don't think anybody believes the network is reliable, it's mostly that you have no freaking clue how the software layers lower than you will react to v

I really don't think anybody believes the network is reliable, it's mostly that you have no freaking clue how the software layers lower than you will react to various conditions and the way an error will be visible to your app will be completely random. "oh, today the underlying layer decided to wait 1min30 for a timeout", "oh, the DNS resolution is broken", "no route to host???", "invalid certificate, did somehone hijack the DNS query?" "this library decided to wrap the errors, now I have learn an entire new vocabulary of failure modes"