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The BugBash Podcast

Antithesis
Software Reliability
Distributed Systems
Code Quality
Property-Based Testing
Incident Response
Software Engineering
Database Management
Configuration Management
RR Replay Debugger
Debugging Tools
Queuing Theory
Deterministic Simulation Testing
Mozilla
Flaky Tests
Hypothesis
Artificial Intelligence
Durable Execution
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Fuzzmap
Reliability

The BugBash podcast is a lively look at all aspects of software reliability, by enthusiasts, for everyone. Each episode brings leading engineers and researchers together for deep dives on everything from formal methods to testing to observability to human factors. There’s concrete advice on best practices, and nuanced discussion of how these strategies combine to deliver software that works. And i... more

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In this episode, Carl Sverre and David Wynn sit down with Philip O'Toole, creator of rqlite. We dive into his philosophy of using tests as a core design strategy, his tactical advice for turning AI agents into technical research assistants, and how l... more

What happens when your open source library changes millions of lives?

In this episode, we sit down with David MacIver, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, and Liam DeVoe — three generations of maintainers of Hypothesis, the property-based testing library used by ro... more

In this episode of the Bug Bash podcast, host David Wynn shares a collection of conversations recorded at Bug Bash 2026. 11 developers share their war stories about the most interesting bugs they've encountered and resolved.

They talk about JDK issu... more

You hit 100% test coverage, deploy to production, and the system still falls over. An old story, maybe aside from the 100% coverage percent part.

In this episode, David sits down with Marco Primi and Sean Allen from the Antithesis Red Team to talk a... more

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Recent Guests

David MacIver
Original author and longtime maintainer of Hypothesis
Hypothesis project
Episode: A Wild Hypothesis: The Python Library that Kills PhDs
Zac Hatfield-Dodds
Second maintainer and early contributor
Hypothesis project
Episode: A Wild Hypothesis: The Python Library that Kills PhDs
Liam DeVoe
Contributor and maintainer who joined via open source contributions
Hypothesis project / Anthropic
Episode: A Wild Hypothesis: The Python Library that Kills PhDs
Matthew Elm
BugBash attendee with experience on Spark
Episode: Dev in the Street
Amy Brown
DC local systems programmer focused on testing and verification
Datacenter (DC local)
Episode: Dev in the Street
Jake Miles
Everbright software developer and manager, testing, OCaml, formal verification
Everbright
Episode: Dev in the Street
Ross Townsend
Recruiter and Rust NYC organizer, distributed systems expert
Lawrence Harvey, Rust NYC
Episode: Dev in the Street
Holmes Wilson
Developer working on Quiet app; ex Fight for the Future
Quiet, Fight for the Future
Episode: Dev in the Street
Alex Weisberger
Engineer at Datadog; observability and database observability
Datadog
Episode: Dev in the Street

Hosts

David Nguyen
Host with multiple speaker appearances; affiliated with The BugBash Podcast and Antithesis.
David Wynn
Co-host with recurring appearances; frequently represents The BugBash Podcast and its affiliated projects.

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#238
New Zealand/Technology
Apple Podcasts
#244
Ukraine/Technology

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Why simple workloads find the hardest bugs
Q: What makes a good workload vs a bad workload?
A good workload targets the system's correctness properties, covers diverse inputs, and remains usable and adaptable over time, with continuous verification of invariants rather than just pushing data through the system.
The Dollar Bet that Fuzzed Figma: Exploding Laptops and UI Reliability with Jonathan Chan
Q: What were the biggest design decisions that made Fuzzmap practical for React UIs?
The core decisions were to instrument for coverage, focus on event handlers as the sequence of actions that drive state, and collapse states to a small, meaningful set for both fuzzing efficiency and visualization. This required balancing the granularity of state representation with the need to keep the search space tractable.
The Dollar Bet that Fuzzed Figma: Exploding Laptops and UI Reliability with Jonathan Chan
Q: Could you explain at a high level how Fuzzmap works and how it relates to React's lifecycle?
Fuzzmap instruments the React code to gather coverage data and to persist a state map, yes; it uses a queue of input seeds, instruments conditionals to see which branches are taken, and tracks event handlers to reproduce states. The visualization collapses many states to a manageable set to guide fuzzing and help humans reason about the UI state's evolution.
From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical
Q: What would be a recommendation for a VP of Engineering?
Invest in a culture of testing, incorporating automated testing with advanced tools as a first-class activity in software design.
From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical
Q: What recommendation do you have for a senior developer?
Ensure that a software system is testable and well-designed for other tools, allowing tools to effectively find bugs.

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The show concentrates on software reliability, testing, observability, and the human factors shaping engineering cultures. Across episodes, hosts and guests dissect workload-driven testing, deterministic simulations, AI-assisted tooling, UI fuzzing, and robust debugging practices in distributed systems. Noteworthy threads include practical guidance for building reusable testing workloads, maintaining discipline with TDD and guardrails when leveraging AI, and the evolution of tooling for large-scale software ecosystems and hardware-forward environments. The conversations combine concrete techniques, real-world anecdotes, and a strong emphasis on measurable improvement, making it a valuable resource for engineers, SREs, and engineering leader... more

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