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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Testing’, page 2:

Deterministic Components for Distributed Systems

posted August 22, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Then you can recover from any single server failure in a perfectly transparent manner”
Another Quote:	“after the program fails in production, we can get the input log and run it in the comfort of a developer’s machine, under a debugger, as many times as we want, and get exactly the same variables at exactly the same points as happened in production”
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posted May 9, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“I am not saying that this architecture is the only viable one, but it does work for TCP for sure (and performs reasonably well too)”
Another Quote:	“The whole task of optimizing performance beyond, say, 20-50K packets/second per box tends to be Quite Elaborated, and involves quite a few things which are platform- and hardware-dependent.”
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posted April 4, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Doing sanitization at IDL level automates quite a bit of tedious-and-error-prone work, which is always a Good Thing™”
Another Quote:	“Hey, this whole thing can be made MUCH simpler, the only thing we need to acknowledge is that the best identifier for a string is the string itself!”
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posted December 14, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“To have a good concurrency model, it is not strictly necessary to program in Erlang”
Another Quote:	“Most of developers agree that FSM-based programming is beneficial in the medium- to long-run.”
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posted December 7, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“After your logic has failed in production, you can “replay” this inputs-log on your functionally identical in-house system, and the bug will be reproduced at the very same point where it has originally happened.”
Another Quote:	“You can implement your Finite State Machine as a deterministic variation of a usual event-driven program”
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posted June 15, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“If your game is the only one working when all the competition is down, it improves user perception about your app a lot.”
Another Quote:	“Most importantly, however, this approach allows to keep your players happy – and this is one thing which really matters”
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posted January 1, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“If you think you don’t need a testing team – think again”
Another Quote:	“Never ever position testers as inferior to developers. First, they are not inferior. Second, it will hurt the process badly.”
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