Crash-Only Software

Our next paper is "Crash-Only Software" by Candea and Fox.

Crash-only programs crash safely and recover quickly. There is only one way to stop such software—by crashing it—and only one way to bring it up—by initiating recovery. Crash-only systems are built from crash-only components, and the use of transparent component-level retries hides intra-system component crashes from end users. In this paper we advocate a crash-only design for Internet systems, showing that it can lead to more reliable, predictable code and faster, more effective recovery. We present ideas on how to build such crash-only Internet services, taking successful techniques to their logical extreme.

Link:https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/candea/candea.pdf

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