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Increasingly, critical compute services are being delivered across wide-area networks. Today, a primary challenge to computer systems is building highly reliable services. However, the same decentralized nature that contributed to its sustained, exponential growth makes it difficult to deliver highly reliable services over the Internet. Failures and performance fluctuations in the middle of the network mean that no centralized service can continuously deliver high levels of performance and availability to all of its clients. Further, highly bursty and unpredictable access patterns force developers to overprovision their services for some expected worst case. Of course, it is only economically feasible to over-provision by some maximum amount.
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Vahdat, A. (2003). Dynamically Provisioning Distributed Systems to Meet Target Levels of Performance, Availability, and Data Quality. In: Schiper, A., Shvartsman, A.A., Weatherspoon, H., Zhao, B.Y. (eds) Future Directions in Distributed Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2584. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37795-6_23
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