Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Sy
Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems Year 2009 Peer-reviewed
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CatchAndRetry

Emre Kiciman, Benjamin Livshits, Madanlal Musuvathi
2009
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In this paper, we present CatchAndRetry, an extension of the traditional exception mechanism to provide language-level support for common recovery techniques in distributed systems. We motivate and justify our design by analyzing several cases studies taken from the context of Facebook. CatchAndRetry is a language mechanism that is general enough to apply to multiple tiers of a distributed application; throughout this paper, we illustrate CatchAndRetry with examples of its use within both a large-scale distributed server-side application running in a data center as well as a JavaScript clients-side application running within a web browser.

Cite this paper — BibTeX 
@inproceedings{catchandretry-kiciman09,
  title = "{CatchAndRetry}: Extending Exceptions to Handle Distributed System Failures and Recovery",
  author = "Emre Kiciman, Benjamin Livshits, and Madanlal Musuvathi",
  year = "2009",
  month = oct,
  booktitle = {Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems}
}
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