The Log: What Every Software Engineer Should Know About Real-Time Data's Unifying Abstraction

Kreps, J. (2013). The Log: What Every Software Engineer Should Know About Real-Time Data's Unifying Abstraction. LinkedIn Engineering.

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2013

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https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying

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• Immutability
  • The structural insight is robust: a functional list, a git repository, a blockchain, a double-entry ledger, and a recorded deed all exhibit the same fixed-after-creation logic.

    This sourceLinkedIn Engineering. Presents the append-only, totally-ordered log as a unifying abstraction underlying databases, replication, version control, and stream processing, showing the fixed-after-creation, retention-of-prior-state logic is identical across otherwise unrelated substrates.

• Logging
  • In distributed systems it is the write-ahead log and the blockchain, where replication consistency reduces to log-replication consistency and the log becomes the primary state, the running system a mere function of it.

    This sourceArgues the append-only log is the primary abstraction in distributed systems, with replication consistency reducing to log-replication consistency.

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