Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? (1985) [pdf]

[Tomte]

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf

[greenleafjacob]

Erlang the language built out an implementation of the process model and software fault tolerance [1]

[1]: http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

[EvanAnderson]

Anything written by Jim Gray is worth reading. I was, and still am, deeply saddened by his loss.

[geonnave]

This piece is, indeed, very well written. A couple of months ago I used it in a subject's work in the master program I'm enrolled, in which I analyze Erlang's features for providing software fault-tolerance. If it would be useful to anyone: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4R-MWo1s2mTc0hMc2Z6czU1ekU...