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I'm pretty sure that this post inspired DL. It was written by Jay, one of the 3 founders of kafka (Jay, Jun, and Neha) and should be recommended reading for eve

by SEJeff 11y ago

I'm pretty sure that this post inspired DL. It was written by Jay, one of the 3 founders of kafka (Jay, Jun, and Neha) and should be recommended reading for every software engineer if you've not read it: 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... An ordered append only datastructure is rightfully called a log. The fact that text based files are called logs is just an annoying feature in common english usage.

i0exception 11y ago
IIRC, we started working on Distributed Log at least a year before that post.
- mioelnir 11y ago
  The Twitter blog post in other comments says that "At design time we had concerns about Kafka’s I/O model...", which means that at the least Kafka was extensively studied during the design phase of DistributedLog, which may have started earlier than Kafka's release of course.