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Failure Modes

Explore how failure modes occur in distributed systems and understand the importance of accepting these inevitable failures. Learn to design safe failure responses, known as crackstoppers, that contain damage and protect critical system components, enhancing overall resilience and longevity.

Catastrophic failure

Impulses and excessive strain can both trigger catastrophic failure. In either case, some component of the system will start to fail before everything else does.

In Inviting Disaster [Chi01], ...