Re:A Focus on Stability
by nickpsecurity on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:53PM
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It's implied in the article. It mentions many mounting problems in stability, including nobody was dedicated to working on it. Implies a lack of QA. I based my claims on the article's. If those claims were mistated, then any of mine drawing on them wont apply of course.
Just reads like a lack of QA in general with most correctness effort focused on protocol design itself.
Correctness and robustness are the main factors behind the design and implementation choices we make. A significant part of the overall engineering effort has been on stability for a long time. We're now making it closer to 90% for a while.
None of this is unexpected in the development of a complex system, especially when there are many factors involved in deciding how much to focus on various aspects. I have worked on a few unrelated systems which turned out to be stable and successful when released and - at a comparable stage in their development - they were much less stable. So personally, I am very optimistic about CockroachDB.