[ignoramous]

NATS' author, u/tylertreat, wrote a series of articles on how to build a distributed log that are pretty insightful:

Part 1, Storage Mechanics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983185

Part 2, Data Replication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16021876

Part 3, Message Delivery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16101223

Part 4, Trade-offs and Lessons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16181963

Part 5, Sketching a New System: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16215788

[atombender]

I think you mean Liftbridge's author. NATS was created by Derek Collison [1], co-founder of CloudFoundry.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=derekcollison