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What is this software used for? Instrumentation? Black boxes?

• smw 2y ago
  It's a kafka clone. Kafka is a durable queue, mostly.
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  • sureglymop 2y ago
    What is a durable queue and why is it needed (instead of a traditional relational db)?
    • cyberax 2y ago
      RDBs suck for many-to-many high-availability messaging.
    • toast0 2y ago
      Traditional relational dbs can be good at durability (if properly configured), but it a queue might be designed differently than a table. You might want to be more specific about how messages are assigned to clients than what would be convenient in a relational database.
  • rad_gruchalski 2y ago
    Kafka is an append-only log, not a queue.
    • zbentley 2y ago
      Assuming successful implementation of KIP-932, it will soon be a queue as well. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A+Queues+for+Kafka https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...
• baq 2y ago
  Jepsen is for making you cry if you didn't know they're testing the database you develop. Of course, those are tears of joy, because having jepsen's attention is an achievement in itself.
  • SahAssar 2y ago
    You describe jepsen as if it's BDSM for databases, which might not be too far off.