You know, I had to integrate with `journald` a bit ago and I was prepared for a nightmare after all the ruckus raised about systemd. And you know what? It’s fa

You know, I had to integrate with `journald` a bit ago and I was prepared for a nightmare after all the ruckus raised about systemd. And you know what? It’s fantastic. The API is generally well-designed (if not without a few sharp corners) and the whole thing is incredibly well thought out. Sure, plain text logs let you use standard UNIX tools. But doing so sucks. God help you if there’s a newline in your logs or if you have to ensure that you iterate over all the logs even across restarts or if you need to parse logs back out from text into the underlying attributes.