"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as the canonical talk on simulation testing and a mind-blowing example of how far rigorous testing can go.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Strange Loop Conference

Topic

distributed systems testing

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

12

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• One of their engineers gave a great talk at Strangeloop ( [VIDEO] ) that shows some of the amazing simulations they ran FoundationDB through. It's well worth a watch if you want to understand the punishment that they put this database through to make it …

• This talk was about Foundation DB was brought up recently, and it's pretty amazing. I recommend watching the whole thing, but to be brief they are taming the "infinite interleavings" problem through determinism. "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson [VIDEO] They wrote …

• Soooo stoked. This should make futzing with it to get started a lot easier. I've been thinking about going to the FoundationDB summit to hopefully learn more... Does anyone have any good resources for learning about it? I've tried a few times but find the …