Comment by nemothekid
14 days ago
I understand the author feels he missed an opportunity to catch a bug in Sqlite - but this still feels like catching something in hindsight. Just knowing the bug the is in Sqlite's concurrency engine is a huge win.
But reading over tailscale's blogpost, I'm not sure how I would connect the dots to "this issue I'm seeing in production" to "load this up in antithesis". It seemed half the battle was figuring out if the bug was in Sqlite, Tailscale, or Linux, and in that situation if you gave Antithesis all the context, would it reliably find the bug?
Maybe it wouldn't, but being able to cheaply test SQLite within a few minutes is still very valuable, even if just to rule it out.