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the commercial community of practice is small for sure.
yes, the test code is an “oracle”, knowing what the service _should_ be doing. it’s a parallel implementation of the logic, highly geared towards the use-case of testing.
It's essentially as you described.
(A friend of mine was VP Eng there and was trying to recruit me to work on the larger platform, but as Mongo started gaining traction they dropped the other parts to focus on that)
when i started the goal was weight management, as i was getting tubby as i was getting older. that part worked. now (9 years later), it is for fun.
> It is worth noting that Go came nearest disqualifying itself entirely here. If it were not possible to lock out Go’s GC in critical regions Rust would win by default.
The very large heaps are partially driven by distributed in-memory storage systems.