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> In fact, our everyday testing was way more brutal than Jepsen, I gave a talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc https://www.youtube.co
by catwell 8y ago
> In fact, our everyday testing was way more brutal than Jepsen, I gave a talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
Unrelated to the original topic, but I had never come across that talk and it is great. I use the same basic approach to testing distributed systems (simulating all non-deterministic I/O operations) and that talk is a very good introduction to the principle.
- wenc 8y agoIn reinforcement learning, the same approach (simulation) to addressing a data deficit is used, although the goal there is learning and not testing. When certain events happen rarely, you have fake them deterministically so that you have reproducible coverage.