IcedTea: Efficient and Responsive Time-Travel Debugging in Dataflow Systems

Summary: IcedTea: reverse time-travel debugging for distributed dataflow systems — periodically capture global operator states and allow rollback to any past interaction with stepwise replay. Formalizes the model and applies runtime/space optimizations to support responsive debugging of stateful, ML-heavy dataflows with low overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14247
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,887 | 24.34%
DOI: 10.14778/3712221.3712251

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