Analyzing Metastable Failures
A metastable failure is a self-sustaining congestive collapse in which a system degrades in response to a transient stressor (e.g., a load surge) but fails to recover after the stressor is removed. These rare but potentially catastrophic events are notoriously hard to diagnose and mitigate, sometimes causing prolonged outages affecting millions of users.
Authors
- Rebecca Isaacs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6737-1503)
- Sadegh Soudjani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1922-6678)
- Mahmoud Salamati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3790-3935)
- Peter Alvaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6672-240X)
- Rupak Majumdar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2136-0542)
- Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy
Institutions
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (DE)
- Saarbrücken Stadtwerke (Germany) (DE)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-05-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3713082.3730380
- Primary Topic
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00