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I was cleaning out my GitHub repos the other day when I stumbled across this old gem I’d long forgotten, and I thought I’d share it. When I was at the Open Networking Foundation, I…

We’re not attempting to replace any of the existing Go logging frameworks. Dazl is an abstraction layer above structured loggers like slog. We could add a slog plugin (we have zap …

A few years ago, my team moved from Java to Go. Working on Go projects, we came across a variety of logging frameworks with different APIs outputting messages in different formats.…

“Consisteny without clocks” seems like a misnomer considering Raft indexes are tantamount to a logical clock. Perhaps it should be “consistency without wall clocks.” But that’s not…

Copycat is a complete extensible implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm that was heavily influence by some of ZooKeeper's algorithms. You can read extensively about the Raf…

This is not totally true. There are ways to ensure a read from a follower sees the latest writes from the same client. You do this by sending the index of a client's write back to …

I totally agree. I recently moved to LA for a job. A couple of months before moving I had bought a nice road bike. Even though I live 2.5 miles from work now, that road bike still …

I think the two business arguments for open source are: Open sourcing software assists in its stability by creating a larger user base (users who report bugs) and attracting contri…

I have to say, as a young engineer working at a startup full of cutting-edge technologies, this seems to be the best advice I've seen yet (if that type of environment is what you'r…

The proposed optimizations are pretty interesting, but I think my favorite such optimization has been proposed by Ayende Rahien. As with the optimizations outlined in this paper, h…