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The Spectrum of Failure Models

Failures are inevitable in distributed systems. They may be transient or permanent. Failure models provide a framework for reasoning about the impact of failures and for determining appropriate mitigation strategies.

The following illustration presents the spectrum of failure models:

Spectrum of failure models, the difficulty level when dealing with a failure increases as we move to the right
Spectrum of failure models, the difficulty level when dealing with a failure increases as we move to the right

Fail-stop

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