... if you read Jay Krep's introduction to logs [1] (in the Kafka sense of logs) you can see that while he has a nice sense of humor [2], he felt pretty good about the Log abstraction and about Kafka. In no sense do I get the feeling he thought he was creating a kludge or something bad -- or "kafkaesque". Judging by the article, it might as well been named Apache Tolstoy!
[2] "'Each working data pipeline is designed like a log; each broken data pipeline is broken in its own way.' — Count Leo Tolstoy (translation by the author)"
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Your comment is on point. However...
... if you read Jay Krep's introduction to logs [1] (in the Kafka sense of logs) you can see that while he has a nice sense of humor [2], he felt pretty good about the Log abstraction and about Kafka. In no sense do I get the feeling he thought he was creating a kludge or something bad -- or "kafkaesque". Judging by the article, it might as well been named Apache Tolstoy!
[1] https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
[2] "'Each working data pipeline is designed like a log; each broken data pipeline is broken in its own way.' — Count Leo Tolstoy (translation by the author)"