Fault Tolerance

Dead Nodes Tell No Tales: Globally Consistent Snapshots for Distributed Containers
A reliable-UDP proxy and Chandy-Lamport based snapshotting system for checkpointing and restoring live, distributed containerized applications.
Jun 9, 2026 3 min read
Understanding VMware FT: Deterministic Replay and Continuous Availability in Virtualized Environments
An in-depth look at VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) and how it achieves transparent failover for virtual machines using deterministic replay, based on the paper by Scales, Nelson, and Venkitachalam.
Sep 1, 2022 4 min read