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Tangent about FoundationDB: this is a great video that explains how the team tested it https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?si=kSZ8VcOIjW_pMmPd https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi
by jrvarela56 3y ago
Tangent about FoundationDB: this is a great video that explains how the team tested it https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?si=kSZ8VcOIjW_pMmPd https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?si=kSZ8VcOIjW_pMmPd
Spoiler: they even had their own custom power supplies used to test against power failures.
- dboreham 3y agoFwiw this is standard procedure for anyone shipping a persistent storage product.
- rapsey 3y agoOnly after FoundationDB made it standard.
- mst 3y agoFoundationDB's testing turns the rigorous up to 11 and I'm unaware of anybody else who's published a description of a testing approach that goes to quite the same extremes. If that's just because I haven't noticed the others, I'd love to hear about them for comparison.
- jeffbee 3y agoI found a dataloss bug in the first hour of testing FDB. I think their testing hype is a bit overhyped. I also find it somewhat irritating that they won't take fixes or reports of problems with the storage engine because "we fixed this in redwood" when redwood is completely theoretical.
- endisneigh 3y agoYou've been able to use redwood since FDB 7.1 via ssd-redwood-1-experimental. Hardly theoretical. Curious about that data loss bug. do you have a link? most bugs I've seen have to due with latency spikes and cluster unavailability. haven't seen any around data loss after transaction has committed.
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- LAC-Tech 3y agoAh someone else posted that video. I'm still recovering from it, it turned my world upside down (in a good way!).