Obviously, the answer to the question depends on a number of environmental factors. In general, I'm wondering what people's experiences are with HtmlUnitDriver as a reliable tool that can be "trus...

I have encountered a very interesting behavior of reliable session. I am using netTcp binding + duplex channel + reliable session. When I am trying to listen on channel.faulted , if there is secur...

Long version: I'm new to erlang, and considering using it for a scalable architecture. I've found many proponents of the platform touting its reliability and fault tolerance. However, I'm struggl...

I've written a small operating system for embedded project running on small to medium target. I added some automated unit test with a high test code coverage (>95%), but the scope is only the stat...

I have been working on many applications which run as windows service or scheduled tasks. Now, i want to make sure that these applications will be fault tolerant and reliable. For example; i have ...

Can you help me understand Linux HA? Pacemaker, Heartbeat, Corosync seem to be part of a whole HA stack, but how do they fit together? How does wackamole differ from Pacemaker/Heartbeat/C...

Our product is a distributed system. The modules I work on are fairly new, quite rigorous, well tested. They were developed with recent best practices in mind. Other modules can be considered as le...

Upgrading software for embedded devices often has the possibility of "bricking" the device, e.g. if power should happen to fail while in the midst of writing software to FLASH. Two questions:...

I'm trying to figure out a protocol to use with domain sockets and can't find information on how blindly the domain sockets can be trusted. Can data be lost? Are messages always received in the sa...

I'm not talking about the stuff that health junkies eat, but the open-source search/indexing software based on Xapian. My company are currently employing someone to implement it, and they want me ...

Is it a good idea to use sockets to send data between two servers, or should I use something like MQ for moving data. My questions: are sockets reliable, if I need once only/assured delivery of th...

I've heard that the automotive industry has something called MISRA C. What are the relevant standards for other high reliability/availability/security industries, such as Space Aircraft Banking/...

I have been looking into using Facebook Connect for a new web site I am building, however the Facebook API seems to be a little flaky. The code I have been using is basic, however the example appl...

I have a Java SOAP data service which sits on top of a Sybase database which, for reasons out of my control, has unreliable performance. The database is part of a vendor package which has been modi...