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Comment by dgan

5 days ago

> Centralized services don't decrease redundancy

Alright, but it creates a failure correlation where previously there was none

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silvestrov  5 days ago

Have you ever heard of the "sendmail worm", aka Morris Worm ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

You can definitely have failure correlation without having centralized services.

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