Toward Self-Healing Multitier Services

Are self-healing database-centric multitier services utopia or just a hard puzzle? We argue for the latter and aim to identify the missing pieces of this puzzle. We advocate robust and scalable learning-based approaches to self-healing that we expect to work well for a large class of multitier services. We identify performance-availability problems (PAPs) as the most relevant target for self-healing, and argue that PAPs are best addressed macroscopically, outside the realm of individual tiers. Finally, we lay out a research agenda for learning-based approaches to selfhealing, to enable wider deployment of self-healing multitier services.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICDE
• Authors: Brian Cook, Shivnath Babu, George Candea, Songyun Duan
• Keywords: Database, ICDE 2007, Multitier Services, Self-healing Database-centric Multitier, Self-healing Multitier Services