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Shared fate caps availability

The availability question is never "how many replicas?" It is "what is the least-available thing all of them depend on?"

Shared component
availability of a component every replica depends on

Recurring principle: The end-to-end argument

Worked examples, recomputed

Every number the mechanisms quote for this relationship is recomputed from it, so none of them disagrees with it.

Where it appears

Each mechanism states it in its own names. The general symbol each name stands for is shown with it.