brandtg

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   by brandtg 6y ago

   Kafka famously left several novels unfinished... like the log, man... Just keeps going
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   by brandtg 11y ago

   Leave it to HN to over-analyze a romantic anecdote...
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   by brandtg 11y ago

   I'm curious to know the motivation behind publicizing the project at this stage in development, as it seems like the key feature (distributed transactional storage engine) is quite far away on the road map. Are there any design documen
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   by brandtg 12y ago

   Some caveats about Kafka replication are discussed here: https://aphyr.com/posts/293-call-me-maybe-kafka . It is important to include these in the "exactly-once" discussion... (hard to be exactly-once if messa
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   by brandtg 12y ago

   Small project that may be of interest to those involved in this discussion: https://github.com/brandtg/alicia Kind of "eventually monotonic" distributed auto-increment keys. Your mileage may vary.