Practical TLA+
Planning Driven Development
Authors: Wayne, Hillel
Download source code Free Preview- Use TLA+ to uncover complex bugs before you code
- Practical, useful examples in distributed systems, threading, business logic, and more
- Three case studies that teach the real-world experience
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- About this book
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Learn how to design complex, correct programs and fix problems before writing a single line of code. This book is a practical, comprehensive resource on TLA+ programming with rich, complex examples. Practical TLA+ shows you how to use TLA+ to specify a complex system and test the design itself for bugs.
You’ll learn how even a short TLA+ spec can find critical bugs. Start by getting your feet wet with an example of TLA+ used in a bank transfer system, to see how it helps you design, test, and build a better application. Then, get some fundamentals of TLA+ operators, logic, functions, PlusCal, models, and concurrency. Along the way you will discover how to organize your blueprints and how to specify distributed systems and eventual consistency.
Finally, you’ll put what you learn into practice with some working case study applications, applying TLA+ to a wide variety of practical problems: from algorithm performance and data structures to business code and MapReduce. After reading and using this book, you'll have what you need to get started with TLA+ and how to use it in your mission-critical applications.
What You'll Learn- Read and write TLA+ specs
- Check specs for broken invariants, race conditions, and liveness bugs
- Design concurrency and distributed systems
- Learn how TLA+ can help you with your day-to-day production work
Who This Book Is For
Those with programming experience who are new to design and to TLA+.
- About the authors
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Hillel Wayne is a software consultant who specializes in formal methods and specification. He also writes on empirical engineering, software history, and education. In his free time, he juggles and makes chocolate. He lives in Chicago. You can find his other work at hillelwayne.com or on Twitter at @hillelogram.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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An Example
Pages 3-22
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PlusCal
Pages 23-42
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Operators and Functions
Pages 43-64
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Constants, Models, and Imports
Pages 65-77
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Concurrency
Pages 79-96
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Practical TLA+
- Book Subtitle
- Planning Driven Development
- Authors
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- Hillel Wayne
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Apress
- Copyright Holder
- Hillel Wayne
- Distribution Rights
- Standard Apress distribution
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4842-3829-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4842-3829-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4842-3828-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 221
- Number of Illustrations
- 22 b/w illustrations
- Topics
