Sentence examples for a single point of failure from inspiring English sources

"If one bolt falls off and you die, that's a single point of failure".

Using two independent sources of random numbers insured that neither could be a single point of failure.

"If one bolt falls off and you die, that's a single point of failure," the Virgin Galactic engineer, Matt Stinemetze, told Wired magazine in March 2013.

While GitHub has greatly simplified and centralized software development, it comes with a price: it is now a single point of failure.

As spelled out in the executive summary that was released on Tuesday, the report found neither "a single point of failure" nor a "silver bullet" that would have allowed the C.I.A. to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks.

Engineers work to eliminate places where a single point of failure can cause large-scale damage, like the O-rings that led to the loss of the shuttle Challenger in 1986.

"In the short term, RoboEarth adds security by building in a single point of failure for all participating robots," James Barrat, a science author and journalist, has told the BBC.

Your cell phone number is a single point of failure.

Facebook has bequeathed the WWW a single point of failure.

But they suffer from a single point-of-failure since bringing down the bot-master effectively brought down the entire botnet.

Unless you regularly backup, your computer is a single point-of-failure for your most valuable documents, while cloud storage providers have multiple copies of files spanned across servers which are backed up religiously.