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If you read the CS papers surrounding distributed systems, you will often see the notion of a 'journal' or a 'log', meaning an append-only structure, which typically contains numerous agreed-upon facts.

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I agree that term describes the foundational data structure these services provide, but in common parlance that is not really what it means at all and it is confounded by a common(and boring) use case being to synchronize processing of actual, text-based, logs.

Jay Kreps, architect of Kafka, calls it a log.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...

What does "boring" have to do with any use-case?

aka atomic broadcast

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