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Before jumping into the question of how to make systems reliable, it will be useful to briefly understand the reasons that distributed systems fail. In this chapter we discuss some of the thinking around failure: a surprisingly rich and varied technical topic.
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Birman, K.P. (2012). How and Why Computer Systems Fail. In: Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2416-0_9
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