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Breaking distributed systems, one fault at a time.

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The companion blog post from TigerBeetle is great too--dives into detail on the bug we found in the index-intersection query code:
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-06-06-fuzzer-blind-spots-meet-jepsen/
June 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Justin Jaffray has written up a lovely companion to this piece, diving into Snapshot Isolation and how to understand transaction dependency structures. https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/how-to-understand-that-jepsen-report/
How To Understand That Jepsen Report
There is a new Jepsen report which, as always, is an entertaining read and gives some insight into the way things might be broken in subtle ways. I learned...
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May 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Thanks to AWS's Sergey Melnik, as well as HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, we now know that Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters is caused by a disagreement between primaries and secondaries on the order in which transactions become visible […]
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May 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For the daytime crew: Jepsen's distributed systems class starts next week. The accompanying workshop, where we practice writing and debugging our own distributed systems, follows the week after […]
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March 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Woke up to a bunch of excellent emails--y'all rock. Will try to write back to everyone in the next hour or so. ❤️
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thanks to everyone who wrote in objecting to the report's description of data loss due to auto-commit. Some experiments this morning suggest that we got it wrong (at least for the official Java client). We've published an update to the report: https://jepsen.io/analyses/bufstream-0.1.0#updates
November 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM