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How do you design a fully distributed Node.js system with no single points of failure?

Expert NodeJS
Quick Answer Fully distributed Node.js: no single server, stateless services (all state in Redis/DB), message queues (Kafka) for async communication, service discovery (Consul), distributed config (etcd), circuit breakers between services, health checks and auto-restart at every level, multi-region deployment with geo-routing, and chaos engineering to verify fault tolerance.

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Use multi-zone deployment, redundant brokers, replicated DBs, load balancing, leader election, and self-healing mechanisms across all services.
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