Artifact for Measuring the Relative Efficacy of Gossip Enabled Distributed Circuit Breaking

The circuit breaker resiliency pattern has been popularly used to improve the resiliency of distributed systems. We targetted a scope of improvement in this pattern by bringing in some modifications to the traditional circuit breaker pattern and coupling it with a gossip-based information dissemination protocol. To support our claims of superiority of this Gossip Enabled Distributed Circuit Breaking (GEDCB) scheme over the traditional circuit breaker pattern, we modelled three systems -a system that uses GEDCB, one that uses the traditional circuit breakers (CB) and a baseline system that uses no resiliency pattern. We can get a good idea about the efficacy of our proposals based on the relative performance of the three models. The artifact includes the three UPPAAL models that were used to claim the efficacy.