"research that produces real tools, which help developers find (and then fix) real failure-handling bugs, including 16 new bug reports to HDFS (7 design bugs and 9 implementation bugs). Pretty nice, given the intricacies of failure-recovery protocols."
Has anyone heard of this? First time for me, he mentions some preliminary results with ZK, but I've yet to hear anything: http://databeta.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/testing-for-failure-in-the-cloud-fate-and-destini/ Patrick