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Re:Switching to software engineering after 5 years in data s... by angrais on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:27PM (#34188124)
>> I've had to write short inductive proofs in several of the systems I've built.

In what context was this necessary?

Re:Switching to software engineering after 5 years in data s... by recursive on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:35PM (#34188230)
To provide evidence that a recursive algorithm actually works maybe?
Re:Switching to software engineering after 5 years in data s... by eddsh1994 on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:58PM (#34188530)
This is pretty common in the Blockchain space to verify transactions behave correctly when arriving out of sync with tools like Agda, Coq, etc... I assume it's the same on databases & I heard Leslie Lamport give a talk at work where he mentioned AWS used TLA+ to prove some of its properties.