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are much more serious, because if you direct writes to more than one place in your
application you'll inevitably end up with data problems, which can be amazingly dif-
ficult and time-consuming to solve. Load balancers can help with this, but load bal-
ancers can also create problems of their own, sometimes even aggravating the problems
they're intended to help solve. This is why our next chapter is on high availability.
