Systems Papers - Metastable Failures in the Wild

Metastable Failures in the Wild

Hello new and old subscribers!

This week’s paper is Metastable Failures in the Wild.

@AlekseyCharapko (one of the authors) wrote: "Metastable failures feed and strengthen their own failed condition. The main characteristic...is a positive feedback loop that keeps the system in a degraded/failed state".

Metastable failures in distributed systems often lead to severe and prolonged outages - the paper compiles data on this point from public cloud provider outages, businesses, and OSS projects!

The paper review is best enjoyed on the blog.

Until next time,

Micah