- A part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. SPOFs are undesirable in any system with a goal of high availability or reliability, be it a business practice, software application, or other industrial system. Systems can be made robust by adding redundancy in all potential SPOFs. ← Wikipedia
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