Hacker News with Generative AI: Fault Tolerance

From RPC to transactions and durable executions (pramodb.com)
I spent some time reading about “Durable Execution Engines” (eg: Temporal) and explored possible connections to earlier concepts like database transactions, distributed transactions, and building RPC/Microservice based systems in a fault tolerant manner. In this post I’ll try to summarize some of my learnings. How useful it is will depend on how much of this you already know! Among other things, I relied on these great overviews: The Modern Transactional Stack (by some a16z folks) and What is Durable Execution?.

Microservices, Distributed Systems, Transactions, Fault Tolerance

10 points by pramodbiligiri 3 days ago | 0 comments

Weaver Codes: Highly Fault Tolerant Erasure Codes for Storage Systems (2005) (usenix.org)
It has become increasingly clear in the storage industry that RAID5 does not provide sufficient reliability against loss of data either because of multiple concurrent disk losses or disk losses together with sector losses (e.g., due to medium errors from the disks).

Storage Systems, Fault Tolerance, Erasure Codes, RAID

11 points by Tomte 9 days ago | 1 comments

Fault Tolerance in Tandem Computer Systems (1986) [pdf] (azurewebsites.net)

Fault Tolerance, Computer Systems, Distributed Systems, Networking

61 points by sillywalk 118 days ago | 35 comments

SarasDB: Multi-Modal, Fault-Tolerant Database in Rust (xer0x.in)

Databases, Rust, Fault Tolerance, Multi-Modal

3 points by thunderbong 158 days ago | 0 comments

Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance (erlang-solutions.com)
Why do systems fail? This question should probably be asked more often, considering all the factors it involves. It was central to the NonStop architecture because achieving high availability depends on understanding system failures.

System Failures, Fault Tolerance, High Availability

119 points by PaulHoule 224 days ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Kameo – Fault-tolerant async actors built on Tokio (github.com/tqwewe)
Kameo is a lightweight Rust library for building fault-tolerant, distributed, and asynchronous actors.