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Analyzing Metastable Failures

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: A metastable failure is a self-sustaining congestive collapse in which a system degrades in response to a transient stressor (e.g., a load surge) but fails to recover after the stressor is removed. These rare but potentially catastrophic events are notoriously hard to diagnose and mitigate, sometimes causing prolonged outages affecting millions of users.

Source: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

DOI: 10.1145/3713082.3730380

Authors: Rebecca Isaacs, Peter Alvaro, Rupak Majumdar, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani

Institutions: Amazon (United States), University of California, Santa Cruz, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Language: English

Topic: Software System Performance and Reliability

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4413848013

FWCI: 2.663

Cites: 11

Cited by: 2

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