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Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
Metastability is a stable state of a dynamical system other than the system’s state of least energy. – Wikipedia Distributed systems often fail spectacularly and unpredictably. They are a cause for a headache and sleepless on-call nights for way too many engineers. And this is despite lots of efforts to understand the failures, and all…
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