Indeed, globalization amplifies issues with transportation, but local source can only be more fragile with less fault tolerance. Issues like this are kind like

Indeed, globalization amplifies issues with transportation, but local source can only be more fragile with less fault tolerance. Issues like this are kind like network clogging in data centers, but one can hardly argue standalone applications are better because of that. A distributed system is definitely going to have more problem than a singular server, yet that does not mean standalone computers are better.