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Re:Building a Distributed Log from Scratch, Part 1: Storage ... by foota on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:09AM (#15985771)
I think that the offsets are both in terms of number of messages, whereas the log position is the byte in the file that the message occurs at.
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Re:Building a Distributed Log from Scratch, Part 1: Storage ... by kungfooguru on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:37AM (#15988710)
Right, I think earlier Kafka it was actually the position as well, but then they moved to the current method.
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