JOCKO

Kafka/distributed commit log service in Go.

Goals of this project:

• Implement Kafka in Go
• Make operating simpler
• Distribute a single binary
• Improve performance
• Use Raft for consensus
• Smarter configuration settings
  • Able to use percentages of disk space for retention policies rather than only bytes and time kept
  • Handling size configs when you change the number of partitions or add topics
• Learn a lot and have fun

TODO

• Write and read segments of a commit log
• Segment indexes
• Writing over a network
• Distributed replication
• Clients
• Etc...

License

MIT

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