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Testing distributed systems like #ApacheKafka is hard. Really hard. But we've made progress. 🔬 With Antithesis, we're taking a unique approach to testing Bufstream that's exciting for both Buf and the industry as a whole. Imagine this: A well-defined Postgres workload that anyone could run on their platform to test their new distributed database. Right out of the gate? That would be game-changing! It's like conformance testing that the whole industry could agree on. 🤝 Why is this so valuable? Conventional testing approaches we're used to are sequential. Distributed systems are fundamentally concurrent. But that's not how it works in the real world. We need to do better! We need tests that make concurrent requests and consider ALL possible outcomes. The multiverse of distributed systems! 🌌 Managing this explosion of state spaces is challenging, in no small part because It's non-deterministic. That's why Antithesis is so exciting to us at Buf! #DataEngineering #DataStreaming #FutureOfEngineering #TechTrends #Engineering #Kafka #DevOps #CloudNative #DistributedSystems #BigData #CloudIntegration #Testing #Debugging