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by satvikpendem 1188 days ago
> 2) entropy always* increases (RAM usage, memory corruption, hardware issues, OS misconfiguration etc.) so eventually the application will break and stop serving traffic until it's repaired/restarted (which can take time if it's a hardware issue)*

This is not what entropy means. Even if you constrain it to hardware, there is no reason to think that this will happen eventually, unless your timeline is significantly long.