Jepsen aims to improve the safety of distributed databases, queues, consensus systems, etc. We maintain an open source library for safety testing, and publish free, in-depth analyses of specific systems. In each analysis we explore whether the system lives up to its documentation’s claims, file new bugs, and suggest…
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Jepsen analyzes the safety properties of distributed systems–most notably, identifying violations of consistency models. But what are consistency models? What phenomena do they allow? What kind of consistency does a given program really need?