Single point of failure

Single point of failure

A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. SPOFs are undesirable in any system with a goal of high availability or reliability, be it a business practice, software application, or other industrial system.

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enA single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. SPOFs are undesirable in any system with a goal of high availability or reliability, be it a business practice, software application, or other industrial system.
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enMay 2022
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enA single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. SPOFs are undesirable in any system with a goal of high availability or reliability, be it a business practice, software application, or other industrial system.
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Category:Engineering failures
Category:Fault-tolerant computer systems
Category:Network architecture
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Category:Systems engineering
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Detour
Donald Davies
Dynamic routing
Eastern Canada
Edward Snowden
Failure
Fault-tolerant computer system
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High availability
Internet
Life-support system
Nipigon River Bridge
Northeast Corridor
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk River Railroad Bridge
Packet switching
Parallel circuit
Paul Baran
Profiling (computer programming)
Redundancy (engineering)
Reliability engineering
Series circuit
Server cluster
Software application
Software engineering
Spare part
Supply chain
Swing bridge
Trans-Canada Highway
Tree care
Western Canada
Wikt:malfunction
Woodchipper
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Punt únic de fallada
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Toeram-panina tokana
Единая точка отказа
נקודת כשל בודדת
نقطة عطل مفردة
نقطه تکی شکست
จุดเดียวของความล้มเหลว
单点故障
単一障害点
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Category:Engineering failures
Category:Fault-tolerant computer systems
Category:Network architecture
Category:Reliability engineering
Category:Systems engineering
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