Failure Handling Techniques
Explore failure handling techniques crucial for distributed systems. Understand how to identify, recover from, and contain failures such as hardware and silent errors. Learn methods like retransmitting data, storing data on multiple disks, and using error correcting codes to build resilient distributed systems.
Failure is the norm in a distributed system, so building a system that can cope with failures is crucial.This chapter will cover principles on dealing with failures and basic patterns for building systems that are resilient to failures.
In distributed systems, dealing with a failure consists of three main parts: main parts:
- identifying the failure
- recovering from the failure
- containing a failure to reduce its impact, in some cases
Hardware failures
Hardware failures can be the most damaging ones since they can lead to ...