The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (2013)

The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10618051 - Nov 2015 (1 comment)

The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557 - Dec 2013 (17 comments)

Business people will tell you “the log” is nothing more than accounting journal entries that is the life blood of enterprises everywhere. You have a chain of donut shops that transmit their sales and expenses nightly to the corporate HQ? That is the log. The log is the system of record. “State” is an ephemeral representation of the log.

This is probably one of the best written articles I’ve seen this year, which is funny seeing how old it is.