"Tackling Concurrency Bugs with TLA+" by Hillel Wayne

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a concise, high-level intro to what TLA+ is and when it helps.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Strange Loop Conference

Topic

formal specification with tla+

Format

talk

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Hillel gave a pretty interesting talk on TLA+ at last year's StrangeLoop: [VIDEO] If you are new to TLA+ and just want to get the basic idea and use cases, I recommend the talk. Edit: I think he also brought home made granola or something. …

• I feel TLA+ would be too much to ask in a system interview which is what this site is about. In case anybody is interested, there is a nice talk by Hillel Wayne on youtube ( [VIDEO] ) that provides a high-level overview on what …

• The literature on distributed systems is huge. It depends a lot on your use case what you ought to do. If you're lucky you can avoid shared state, as in no race conditions in either end of your executions. [VIDEO] is fairly concise and gives …