Questions tagged [reliability]

Reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time.

Reliability is the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time.

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"Interrupted" TCP connections

I am looking at this question: .NET creating corrupt files, specifically @CodesInChaos's comment: Sometimes an interrupted TCP connection doesn't give any error but just behaves like the end of the stream was reached I searched more about this…
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Reliable access to locked remote computer

What I have: I have Windows 7 on my home PC. What I'm trying to do: I'm trying to keep TeamViewer running at home so I can always get to my home computer. The other day it got completely messed up and would not let me connect but everything else on…
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Anyone know how to covert a signed bitvector to signed int in Z3?

(> (bv2int (bvxor ((_ int2bv 32) x1) ((_ int2bv 32) y1))) 0) x1 and y1 is two signed int, and after the xor. How can i convert them back as a signed int?
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WCF Service or Windows Service for the Calculation Engine component

I have a requirement to create a Rule based Calculation Engine component which has to be invoked from an ASP.Net MVC application. This component will do some calculations based on some rules and can either return the calculated value or put the…
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A question about checking for the existence of a file versus the directory being empty and reliability

I know that pretty much every programming language has a method to check the existence of a file or directory. However, in my case, a file is made which stores program settings. If it does not exist (ie !File.Exists or Directory.Count == 0 where…
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Data extraction from NVD website

I am trying to obtain vulnerability related data from National vulnerability database (NVD). However, the data is not organized properly and as I am a electrical engineer, I have a hard time extracting this data to a csv or excel file. Any…
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Software reliability model to large data

I am trying to apply exponential SRGM to a large data which has about 50000 failure times data. This is taking forever to run and even the online tools are crashing with this data as it is too many data points. Can any of you suggest how can I solve…
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Distributed blob storage and processing platform

Please, advice a distributed platform or architecture that allows having cluster of nodes that stores and processes blobs and have the following restrictions and requirements: Blobs must be processed on-the-fly, by request of client (preferrably…
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R - Ordinal Alpha Reliability ERR

I'm a researcher currently based in New Delhi where I'm helping adapt and validate a psychometric questionnaire. For this I need help with fixing the error in calculating ordinal alpha in R using the package psych. Fixing the Error The questionnaire…
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Fluentd persistence and reliability

Since fluentd does not use redis but supposedly has better built in reliability, how does that solve the problem of the instance going down before it has a chance to send the logs to elastic search? Is this something not significant enough to worry…
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What happens to Local SSD if the entire zone were to lose power?

What happens to data on local SSD if the entire google data center were to suffer a cataclysmic loss of power? When the compute engine instance comes back online eventually, will it still have the data on the Local SSD? It seems like it handles…
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SyntaxHighlighter unreliable and not working on mobile

I've started to use SyntaxHighlighter for my syntax highlighting needs. However, I've realized that it doesn't work on mobile. Similarly, it often doesn't work on desktop browsers, but sometimes it does. It often defaults back to the
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How reliable are JSON transfers over HTTP?

Are JSON responses ever incomplete because of server errors, or are they designed to fail loudly? Are there any special concerns for transferring very large sets of data over JSON, and can they be mitigated? I'm open to any suggestions.
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What is a higher reliability protocol than TCP?

I know that TCP has a 16-bit checksum, to catch errors in transmission. So what TCP outputs on the other end is theoretically reliable... to a point. This article suggests that TCP is not as reliable as one might hope if they are after "high…
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How to keep meteor reliable in a production environment?

I'm currently developing an application in meteor and I'm worried what might happen if a serious bug (or anything) crashes the web application. I have never worked on a production application, but I've read how downtime can seriously impact a…