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Racks, Sprawl and the Myth of Redundancy in Modern Networks

🔁 The article traces redundancy from tangible rack-level practices to fragile cloud and software-defined environments. It argues that physical diversity, disciplined configuration management and automation remain essential as networks span BGP, SD-WAN, edge devices and cloud control planes. Real resilience requires policy alignment, diverse DNS and routing protections and rehearsed pre-mortems so backups are usable when they matter most.