Opportunities in Modeling Complex Distributed Systems

1 · Werner Vogels · Feb. 8, 2006, 2:55 p.m.
Modeling systems has always been part of the toolkit of the computer scientist. We often try to bring systems back to simple queuing models to understand throughput and latency questions, and then use those results to predict resource usage and drive allocation.  Can one actually be confident that such a simple model can accurately reflect reality?...