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Got Predictability?: Experiences With Fault-Tolerant Middleware
Overview Unpredictability in COTS-based systems often manifests as occasional instances of uncontrollably-high response times. A particular category of COTS systems, Fault-Tolerant (FT) middleware, is used in critical enterprise and embedded applications where predictability is of paramount importance. This paper presents empirical data, from 7 different three-tier, FT-middleware applications, that shows strong evidence supporting this "Magical 1%" hypothesis. They conducted a controlled experiment with 7 teams of students from a graduate-level course at Carnegie Mellon University. Each team, starting from a common three-tier architecture, independently implemented and evaluated an original application using middleware (either CORBA or EJB) and a custom-implemented fault-tolerance mechanism (relying on either state-machine or primary-backup replication) for the middle-tier server.
| Publisher | Carnegie Mellon University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | December 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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