Distributed Locking & TLA+ Verification at Modal
tokenbender · x · 2026-08-19
A Modal engineer shares the challenges of distributed locking while building their Sandbox product. To ship the feature with practicality and performance, rules were broken, and TLA+ was used for formal verification to catch race conditions.
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