Tigerbeetle Simulator
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The Tigerbeetle Simulator is a web-based tool for demonstrating the capabilities of Tigerbeetle, a distributed financial accounting system, sparking interest and discussion among HN users about its potential applications and performance.
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My eyes kind of glaze over as I read this but maybe it will be more helpful to you.
This submission seems close but is missing the final bit of instruction polish that would really make it click.
This is a “walking sim” real visualization of our Deterministic Simulation Testing harness, the VOPR.
Typically we do DST headless in the terminal but this is a visualization, more or less the same thing but with a gaming engine on top.
It’s running real TigerBeetle code, but with simulated network/storage and fault injection, and multiple replicas in a cluster, all compiled to WASM and running in the browser, and you can interact with the simulation to poke it and watch the consensus recover.
Here’s the full background context and explanation from our talk, TigerStyle, for which we developed this sim: https://youtu.be/w3WYdYyjek4
See also a shorter explanation: https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-07-11-we-put-a-distributed...
We are working on a tutorial stage, but people tend to hear about TB and TigerStyle and our DST first, appreciating the talks and that we make the visualizers in that context.
(not a tiger beetle user so I’d love to also see some more context for this)