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by strawhatguy 983 days ago
An interesting question, what in software causes catastrophic issues when it's broke, but also designed as it should, like the Jesus nut is for a helicopter?

Obviously many systems have a single point of failure, and can result in lost productivity, but is that designed as it should, or cause catastrophic results like a helicopter crash?

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Load balancer? Cluster coordinator? STONITH device
BGP