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Partial failure

Category: Distributed systems · Status: stub

One line: In a distributed system one component can fail while the others continue, and a caller often cannot tell a slow peer from a dead one.

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In each language

Erlang and Elixir monitor_node monitors the status of another node
Elsewhere gRPC deadlines ↗: once the deadline has passed, the client gives up and fails the call with DEADLINE_EXCEEDED

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