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If you read the CS papers surrounding distributed systems, you will often see the notion of a 'journal' or a 'log', meaning an append-only structure, which typi
by goejoegg 10y ago
If you read the CS papers surrounding distributed systems, you will often see the notion of a 'journal' or a 'log', meaning an append-only structure, which typically contains numerous agreed-upon facts.
- tcoppi 10y agoI agree that term describes the foundational data structure these services provide, but in common parlance that is not really what it means at all and it is confounded by a common(and boring) use case being to synchronize processing of actual, text-based, logs.
- sheriff 10y agoJay Kreps, architect of Kafka, calls it a log. https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
- manigandham 10y agoWhat does "boring" have to do with any use-case?
- vdm 10y agoaka atomic broadcast