Woodpecker: A Cloud-Native, Zero-Disk WAL Storage System

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Woodpecker is a modern, Kubernetes-native WAL storage implementation designed for stateless architectures, offering performance without disk overhead. If you've ever wondered what's behind Milvus’s robust log storage engine, now you can explore and deploy by yourself. (Note this is under heavy development yet)

just regarding the naming, there is a open-source ci/cd tool called woodpecker: https://woodpecker-ci.org/

hah... we just try to name it after a bird.

"Woodpecker" is a good metaphorical name for a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) service for several reasons of Persistent and Reliable. Woodpeckers repeatedly and persistently peck trees, symbolizing the reliability and consistent logging of events or data.

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