single point of failure (SPOF)
A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system which is critital to the health of the system and which cannot tolerate a failure. SPOFs are undesirable in any system with a goal of high availability or reliability. In distributed systems, every components must be replicated as well as the data and the state stored inside.
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