[Gigablah]

Surely any discussion about the concept of logs and mention of Kafka should have a reference to this excellent article by Jay Kreps on LinkedIn:

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

[eternalban]

It [OP] was a bit cringe worthy, frankly. Obviously the Kafka papers about 'reconsidering the log' and 'unified view' and all that have been out there for years now.

The Kreps article is quite excellent and well worth the read.