Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Always good to see more examples of this sort of project; making it straightforward to test how systems behave with unreliable networks [1] should make building resilient systems easier.

I came across Microsoft's Coyote project [2] a while back, which seems similar to this, though for C#. Has anyone here tried that out? If so, what have your experiences with it been like?

[1] Also known as any network ever.

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/coyote




I used it to test an idea I had to implement the Fast Paxos optimization on top of CASPaxos and it was quite useful for that: https://github.com/ReubenBond/fast-caspaxos (the code is bad, it's just an experiment)


My team used Coyote to test their distributed service against network race conditions. It requires a little bit of setup to ensure all components that typically run on separate machines can run in a single process, and inter-process communication happens through interfaces that can be stubbed out during testing.

I designed a series of workshops to teach these ideas internally at Microsoft. You can find the source code used in the workshop at https://github.com/microsoft/coyote-workshop - the repo can use better README files but sharing it nonetheless in case the setup helps inspire your own use of Coyote.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: