Law
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
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.
- Emergent Failure Dynamics
What happens when nothing is broken, every component is healthy, and the system's own response to stress makes the stress worse?