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by stuarthalloway 763 days ago
Formal verification is very powerful but still not full assurance. Fun fact: Testing and monitoring of Datomic has sometimes uncovered design flaws in underlying storages that formal verification missed.
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Is there anything I can read about what capabilities Datomic requires of the underlying storages it uses?
What kind of flaws? I would expect performance problems.
To start with, you usually perform verification on a behavioral model and not on the code itself. This opens up the possibility that there are behavioral differences between the code itself and the model which wouldn't be caught.
Could you offer an example?
If you work through the TLA+ tutorial[1] it will help you get a good idea of the benefits and limitations of verification.

[1] https://learntla.com/