Michael Pigott on Toward a Generic Fault Tolerance Technique

Welcome to Papers We Love NYC's next remote meetup!

We're happy to host Michael Pigott presenting Toward a Generic Fault Tolerance Technique for Partial Network Partitioning by Mohammed Alfatafta, Basil Alkhatib, Ahmed Alquraan, and Samer Al-Kiswany, University of Waterloo, Canada (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/alfatafta)

The talk will be streamed for free on PWLNYC's twitch channel
(https://www.twitch.tv/paperswelove) and uploaded to the PWL YouTube channel afterward (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoj4eQh_dZR37lL78ymC6XA)

Talk

"When the network partitions, it partitions completely." While this is not a direct quote, nearly all distributed systems today assume that if a network partitions, the nodes in the network are separated completely, and nodes on one side of the partition cannot communicate with nodes on the other side of the partition. The authors behind "Toward a Generic Fault Tolerance Technique for Partial Network Partitioning" find this assumption to be inadequate, to catastrophic results. The paper presents a network communication layer which can detect partial network partitions, and re-route traffic so the entire system can remain available.

Bio

I'm a student earning his master's degree in computer science at University of Illinois. I’ve been a professional software developer for over 15 years. I currently work on a microservices architecture in Go to offer online lending in the buy-now-pay-later space.

Details

The talk will be streamed for free on PWLNYC's twitch channel:
(https://www.twitch.tv/paperswelove)

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