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  "slug": "failure-burst",
  "term": "Failure burst",
  "aliases": [
    "Failure burst (adjacent-gap rule)"
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  "definition": "Under an adjacent-gap rule, a failure burst is a maximal sequence of event starts in which every consecutive gap is no greater than a specified window.",
  "note": "Ford et al. use this rule for node unavailability. A burst may span longer than its gap limit; a singleton is also a burst. Temporal grouping does not by itself establish a common cause. [ford-osdi10] State the event-selection, timing and boundary conventions before comparing counts.",
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    {
      "id": "ford-osdi10",
      "title": "Ford et al. Availability in Globally Distributed Storage Systems. OSDI 2010, section 4.1 and Figure 5.",
      "url": "https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Ford.pdf",
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