Abstract
Modern federated corporate computing environments are characterized by distributed architectures, heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, and dynamic workload orchestration requirements. While these systems provide scalability and resilience, they also introduce complex failure modes that are difficult to diagnose, reproduce, and mitigate in real time. Traditional monitoring and reactive recovery strategies are increasingly insufficient for addressing cascading failures across multi-cloud and edge-integrated ecosystems. This research proposes an adaptive reliability enhancement paradigm grounded in failure retrospection and AI-driven reasoning, leveraging large language models (LLMs), container orchestration systems, and post-incident intelligence frameworks.
The study builds upon recent advancements in cloud-native resilience engineering and self-healing systems, particularly those integrating post-mortem analytics with Kubernetes-based orchestration layers (Post-Mortem Intelligence for Self-Healing Multi-Cloud Enterprise Applications Using LLMs and Kubernetes, 2026). The proposed conceptual framework emphasizes retrospective failure interpretation, semantic log abstraction, and automated corrective action generation through generative AI reasoning modules. By integrating federated learning principles and distributed observability pipelines, the framework enables cross-domain knowledge transfer for improved reliability optimization.
Furthermore, the model incorporates insights from edge-cloud collaboration systems and microservices persistence mechanisms to ensure robustness under variable network conditions (Al-Obeidat et al., 2021; Chen et al., 2024). The research also evaluates the role of AI-enabled resource scheduling and digital twin-driven system simulation in predicting failure propagation patterns (Nguyen et al., 2021; Mansour et al., 2023). A key contribution lies in aligning post-failure intelligence extraction with adaptive orchestration policies to enable autonomous recovery loops.
The findings suggest that integrating LLM-based reasoning with federated operational telemetry significantly improves failure detection accuracy, reduces mean time to recovery (MTTR), and enhances system adaptability under uncertainty. However, challenges remain in ensuring model interpretability, data privacy, and computational overhead in large-scale deployments. This study contributes a structured theoretical foundation for next-generation self-healing federated infrastructures powered by AI-driven retrospective intelligence systems.