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by User23 610 days ago
Distributed systems are famously hard to get right and mathematical formalism is pretty much the only way to do so at scale. Amazon found that out with S3[1]. TLA+ exists for very good reason!

That’s not to discount the reality that mapping the model to reality is hard work that needs to be done.

[1] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon....