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Re:FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key... by fizwhiz on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:02PM (#27424975)
> de novo Paxos implementation written in Flow

That's... brave. Flow is a DSL built on top of C++?

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Re:FoundationDB: A distributed, unbundled, transactional key... by alistairw on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:26PM (#27427189)
Yeah it's their own language on top of c++ to help them with testing distributed systems with deterministic simulation.

Their talk from a while ago about it was something that really blew me away at the time [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc

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