Failure as a Service (FaaS): A Cloud Service for Large-Scale, Online Failure Drills
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Thanh Do, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica, Dhruba Borthakur and Jesse Robbins
EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2011-87
July 28, 2011
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-87.pdf
Cloud computing is pervasive, but cloud service outages still take place. One might say that the computing forecast for tomorrow is "cloudy with a chance of failure." One main reason why major outages still occur is that there are many unknown large-scale failure scenarios in which recovery might fail. We propose a new type of cloud service, Failure as a Service (FaaS), which allows cloud services to routinely perform large-scale failure drills in real deployments.
BibTeX citation:
@techreport{Gunawi:EECS-2011-87,
Author = {Gunawi, Haryadi S. and Do, Thanh and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Stoica, Ion and Borthakur, Dhruba and Robbins, Jesse},
Title = {Failure as a Service (FaaS): A Cloud Service for Large-Scale, Online Failure Drills},
Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
Year = {2011},
Month = {Jul},
URL = {http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-87.html},
Number = {UCB/EECS-2011-87},
Abstract = {Cloud computing is pervasive, but cloud service outages
still take place. One might say that the computing forecast
for tomorrow is "cloudy with a chance of failure." One main
reason why major outages still occur is that there are many
unknown large-scale failure scenarios in which recovery
might fail. We propose a new type of cloud service, Failure
as a Service (FaaS), which allows cloud services to
routinely perform large-scale failure drills in real
deployments.}
}
EndNote citation:
%0 Report %A Gunawi, Haryadi S. %A Do, Thanh %A Hellerstein, Joseph M. %A Stoica, Ion %A Borthakur, Dhruba %A Robbins, Jesse %T Failure as a Service (FaaS): A Cloud Service for Large-Scale, Online Failure Drills %I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley %D 2011 %8 July 28 %@ UCB/EECS-2011-87 %U http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2011/EECS-2011-87.html %F Gunawi:EECS-2011-87