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This is very cool. Nice work! At my day job, I have been using a Go library[1] to build tools that require seekable zstd, but felt a bit uncomfortable with the lack of broader support for the format.

Why zeek, BTW? Is it a play on "zstd" and "seek"? My employer is also the custodian of the zeek project (https://zeek.org), so I was confused for a second.

[1] https://github.com/SaveTheRbtz/zstd-seekable-format-go

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Thanks! I was also surprised that there are very few tools to work with the seekable format. I could imagine that at least some people have a use-case for it.

Yes, the name is a combination of zstd and seek. Funnily enough, I wanted to name it just zeek first before I knew that it already exists, so I switched to zeekstd. You're not the first person asking me if there is any relation to zeek and I understand how that is misleading. In hindsight the name is a little unfortunate.

Zeek is well known in "security" spaces, but not as much in "developer" spaces. It did get me a bit excited to see Zeek here until I realized it was unrelated, though :)

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