Debugging the Ethereum Merge with Parallel Universes
Duration: 00:25:18
Speaker: David Searle, Will Wilson
Type: Talk
Expertise: Beginner
Event: Devcon
Date: Oct 2022
The Ethereum merge is a high-stakes event for the entire industry, and requires several large, stateful, distributed software systems to behave flawlessly in order for it to succeed. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to develop distributed stateful systems like a blockchain with high confidence. Many of the worst bugs in these systems don’t show up in the happy case, but require particular network, hardware, or timing conditions in order to manifest.