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"We're putting all our eggs in one basket by having only Sam know this system."
"Just a thought: are we putting all our eggs in one basket with AWS? What's our backup if they have an outage?"
"This approach puts all our eggs in one basket—if this service fails, the whole feature breaks."
"Risk: We're putting all our eggs in one basket with this third-party API."
"We learned not to put all our eggs in one basket—next time we'll have a fallback plan."
"If we assign all critical tasks to one person, we're putting all our eggs in one basket."
"I'm worried we're putting all our eggs in one basket by using only this library."
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket—have a backup vendor."
Putting all your eggs in one basket
"Putting all your eggs in one basket is risky for this project."
put all their eggs in one basket
"They put all their eggs in one basket and regretted it."
are putting all our eggs in one basket
"We are putting all our eggs in one basket with this strategy."
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