Programming language support for writing fault-tolerant distributed software

Schlichting, Richard D.; Thomas, Vicraj

doi:10.1109/12.364532

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“…There are works that aim to provide application fault tolerance at the language level [7,20]. Szentiványi et al [22] uses aspect-oriented programming features for building fault-tolerant applications.…”

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confidence: 99%

Language level checkpointing support for stream processing applications

Jacques-Silva

Gedik

Andrade

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems &Amp; Networks

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Many streaming applications demand continuous processing of live data with little or no downtime, therefore, making high-availability a crucial operational requirement. Fault tolerance techniques are generally expensive and when directly applied to streaming systems with stringent throughput and latency requirements, they might incur a prohibitive performance overhead. This paper describes a flexible, light-weight fault tolerance solution in the context of the SPADE language and the System S distributed stream processing engine. We devised language extensions so users can define and parameterize checkpoint policies easily. This configurable fault tolerance solution is implemented through code generation in SPADE, which reduces the overall application fault tolerance costs by incurring them only for the parts of the application that require it. In this paper we focus on the overall design of our checkpoint mechanism and we also describe an incremental checkpointing algorithm that is suitable for on-thefly processing of high-rate data streams.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Language level checkpointing support for stream processing applications

Jacques-Silva

Gedik

Andrade

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems &Amp; Networks

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“…3.3.1.4 FT-SR. FT-SR [Schlichting and Thomas 1995] is basically an attempt to augment the SR [Andrews and Olsson 1993] distributed programming language with mechanisms to facilitate fault-tolerance. FT-SR is based on the concept of fail-stop modules (FSM).…”

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“…Enhancing a pre-existing language is an evolutionary approach: in so doing, portability problems are weakened-especially when the extended grammar is translated into the plain grammar, e.g., via a preprocessor-and can be characterised by good execution efficiency [Anderson et al 1985;Schlichting and Thomas 1995].…”

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A survey of linguistic structures for application-level fault tolerance

Florio

Blondia

2008

ACM Comput. Surv.

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Structures for the expression of fault-tolerance provisions in application software comprise the central topic of this article. Structuring techniques answer questions as to how to incorporate fault tolerance in the application layer of a computer program and how to manage the fault-tolerant code. As such, they provide the means to control complexity, the latter being a relevant factor for the introduction of design faults. This fact and the ever-increasing complexity of today's distributed software justify the need for simple, coherent, and effective structures for the expression of fault-tolerance in the application software. In this text we first define a "base" of structural attributes with which application-level fault-tolerance structures can be qualitatively assessed and compared with each other and with respect to the aforementioned needs. This result is then used to provide an elaborated survey of the state-of-the-art of application-level fault-tolerance structures.

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“…FT-SR (Schlichting & Thomas, 1995) is basically an attempt to augment the SR (Andrews & Olsson, 1993) distributed programming language with mechanisms to facilitate fault-tolerance. FT-SR is based on the concept of fail-stop modules (FSM).…”

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Application-Layer Fault-Tolerance Protocols

Florio

2009

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Programming language support for writing fault-tolerant distributed software

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Language level checkpointing support for stream processing applications

Language level checkpointing support for stream processing applications

A survey of linguistic structures for application-level fault tolerance

Application-Layer Fault-Tolerance Protocols

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