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Software Complexity Trade-offs

publish date: 2026/10/04 04:25:25.165121 UTC

While redundancy and diversity are strategies to prevent single points of failure, adding them to software systems introduces new risks. What is a major risk or drawback introduced by using software redundancy and diversity?

It causes hardware components to burn out significantly faster.

It increases system complexity, making it more likely that programmers introduce errors and that code reviewers miss them.

It completely eliminates the ability to use static analysis and code checking tools.

It forces systems to rely exclusively on single-server architectures.

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Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 9th edition

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