Hacker News Reader

"don't wake up operators. bring reliability techniques from academia into real-world practice."

What does he mean here? Don't wake up people with operational problems? Or does "wake up" refer to a scheduling strategy?

Either way, what are these techniques?

View on HN

It means pay more attention to reliability than pop infrastructure and internet companies (who can offset poor reliability with human attention or intentionally deprioritize it to sell more support contacts) tend to put into these things. Specifically, exhaustive concurrency testing of lock-free algorithm interleavings via ptrace driven scheduling, model-based testing in combination with fault injection, ALICE-style file correctness testing, and for the various distributed modules that sit on top, network simulation combined with lineage driven fault injection. This is all very much a work in progress, and I'd love to work with more people on it!

I took that as a reference to pager duty.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com