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

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A landmark talk on testing distributed systems that influenced many later databases; concrete engineering method, not hype.

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Will Wilson explains how FoundationDB was tested by running the whole distributed database inside a deterministic simulator that injects failures reproducibly.

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