Lexicon

Single Instance Dependency

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:single-instance-dependency

Canonical: Lexicon

Depending on a single instance with no standby, so its failure takes down the whole service.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Health Detection and before Replication or Alternate Capacity.

Category

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety

Negated by

  • Failover

Violates

  • Failover

Linked from

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety