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Cold chains fail like distributed systems: no shared ID, stale caches, and missing observability turn a scanned vaccine into a silent stockout.
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Cold chains fail for the same reasons distributed systems do: no shared identity across systems, stale 'cache' data standing in for reality, and little real-time observability. The fix isn't a smarter AI model. It's basic SRE-style practices: a single source of truth, end-to-end monitoring, event sourcing, real SLOs, and designing for network partitions.