Who Would Have Guessed A Single Point Of Failure Was A Bad Idea

Who Would Have Guessed A Single Point Of Failure Was A Bad Idea
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Scooby-Doo taught us more about system architecture than any computer science degree. The top panel shows our hero proudly unveiling "decentralized computing" - a robust, distributed system that can withstand partial failures. But plot twist! In the bottom panel, he dramatically reveals that your company's "decentralized" solution was actually centralized computing all along - a single server disguised as a distributed system, ready to collapse when that one critical node fails at 3 AM on a holiday weekend. And you would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling SREs!

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