Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
Distributed systems often fail spectacularly and unpredictably. They are a cause for a headache and sleepless on-call nights for way too many engineers. And this is despite lots of efforts to understand the failures, and all the tools and “best practices” we have to contain and/or prevent them. Today I want to talk about failures that may occur on a nearly healthy system with no So how does a “healthy” system fail? Naturally, something needs to happen for a failure to occur. We call this something a trigger. Lots of things can act as a trigger (GC, network blips, software pushes,...
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