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The HotOS'21 paper (Aleksey is one of the authors) is very much worth reading if you're building or maintaining large-scale distributed systems: https://sigops.
by mjb 5y ago
The HotOS'21 paper (Aleksey is one of the authors) is very much worth reading if you're building or maintaining large-scale distributed systems: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s11-bronson.pdf https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...
I wrote a blog post about this paper, too: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/05/24/metastable.html https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/05/24/metastable.html
- macintux 5y agoWhile 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. [0]: http://charap.co/metastable-failures-in-distributed-systems/ 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.
- wffurr 5y agoHotOS is not considered to have the same rigor as other more prestigious journals. It’s often used for preliminary results or viewpoint papers, IIYUC.