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I met Antithesis at Strangeloop this year and got to talk to employees about the state of the art of automated fault injection that I was following when I worked at Amazon, and I cannot overstate how their product is a huge leap forward compared to many of the formal verification systems being used today.

I actually got to follow their bug tracking process on an issue they identified in Apache Spark streaming - going off of the docs, they managed to identify a subtle and insidious correctness error in a common operation that would've caused headaches in low visibility edge case for years at that point. In the end the docs were incorrect, but after that showing I cannot imagine how critical tools like Antithesis will be inside companies building distributed systems.

I hope we get some blog posts that dig into the technical weeds soon, I'd love to hear what brought them to their current approach.



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