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Metastable failures in distributed systems

Year: 2021

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We describe metastable failures---a failure pattern in distributed systems. Currently, metastable failures manifest themselves as black swan events; they are outliers because nothing in the past points to their possibility, have a severe impact, and are much easier to explain in hindsight than to predict. Although instances of metastable failures can look different at the surface, deeper analysis shows that they can be understood within the same framework.

Source: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

DOI: 10.1145/3458336.3465286

Authors: Nathan Bronson, Abutalib Aghayev, Aleksey Charapko, Timothy Zhu

Institutions: Pennsylvania State University, University of New Hampshire

Language: English

Topic: Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W3169083195

FWCI: 3.855

Cites: 13

Cited by: 45

Related to: 10