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"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson
Strange Loop Conference · Discussed on HN from 2014 to 2024
Topics and ideas
- 01deterministic simulation
- 02foundationdb
- 03fault injection
Will Wilson of FoundationDB explains how the team tested their distributed database using deterministic simulation. By running the whole system in a simulator with injected faults and reproducible seeds, they could find rare concurrency and network bugs.
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Shows the extreme simulation testing FoundationDB was subjected to
“It's well worth a watch if you want to understand the punishment that they put this database through”Read the original HN comment
teeray · 2015-03 · 12 recommenders across 11 months
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