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How Antithesis finds bugs


Can solving Super Mario Bros. help solve your distributed systems issues?

A year and a half ago, our friends at TigerBeetle invited me to give a sneak preview of Antithesis at Systems Distributed. We’re publishing it now because it answers one of the most common questions we get: how exactly does Antithesis explore the state spaces of complex systems, and how does it find bugs so quickly? In the talk above I skipped to the end of the Super Mario Brothers solution that our platform autonomously discovered, but we’ve embedded the full video below (sped up so you can enjoy the whole thing).

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