Re:Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
by macintux on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:23PM
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While reading Aleksey’s blog[0] linked from yours it struck me that this sounds a great deal like (real world) traffic engineering. A backup occurs, the traffic grinds to a halt, and after the blockage is removed it takes a very long time for the system to recover. If traffic is heavy enough, even just a small slowdown is enough to cause prolonged pain.
(Having said that, my traffic engineering cluefulness is roughly at the “casual reader glancing at headlines” level, if that, but I found the comparison interesting.)
I’m unfamiliar with HotOS, so I’m curious about the context behind this sentence:
> But it's a HotOS paper, and this sure is a hot topic, so I won't hold the lack of a rigorous investigation of the background against the authors.
[0]: http://charap.co/metastable-failures-in-distributed-systems/
(Having said that, my traffic engineering cluefulness is roughly at the “casual reader glancing at headlines” level, if that, but I found the comparison interesting.)
I’m unfamiliar with HotOS, so I’m curious about the context behind this sentence:
> But it's a HotOS paper, and this sure is a hot topic, so I won't hold the lack of a rigorous investigation of the background against the authors.