distributed log (dlog)

‘A partitioned append-only log that all producers and consumers use as a pipeline.’ — Melina Lu in Functional distributed systems beyond request-response

‘I would recommend using a typed data serialisation system where we can ensure safe schema evolution in a developer friendly way and not manage these changes on top of JSON or XML’ — Melina Lu in Functional distributed systems beyond request-response @30:10

(also called event sourcing)

Is the append-only IPFS log that OrbitDB uses similar to this?

Is this what Olav was talking about at some point (where he worked at the time)? Where they had a massive Firehose with all the events? And you could just ‘subscribe to a stream’. To do your analysis etc?

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