Lexicon

Single Copy State

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:single-copy-state

Canonical: Lexicon

Keeping only one copy of state, so its loss or unavailability takes down the whole system.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Read Scaling and before Cost/Cold Start.

Category

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety

Negated by

  • Replication

Violates

  • Replication

Linked from

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety