Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log service

Re:Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log se... by Smudge on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:35PM (#11668462)

Arguably there are benefits to developing in-house expertise, and no better way to develop expertise than to architect and build a solution end-to-end. Twitter now has several domain experts on staff who can continue maintaining DistributedLog and/or weigh its benefits against Kafka's and make more informed decisions going forward.

Not saying that they couldn't have worked more closely with Kafka's team in the first place, but, hey, now we have two Kafkaesque log services instead of just one. Seems like a win to me.

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Re:Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log se... by Xylakant on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:50PM (#11668587)

> Arguably there are benefits to developing in-house expertise, and no better way to develop expertise than to architect and build a solution end-to-end

There are also drawbacks to consider: Those experts might just decide to leave and then you have an in-house solution that you have basically no chance to find experts on. At least with an open source solution you may have an easier time.

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Re:Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log se... by cwilkes on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:20PM (#11669329)

> hey, now we have two Kafkaesque log services instead of just one. Seems like a win to me.

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