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Re:Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distribut... by Kinrany on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:32AM (#42814063)
> The order of log entries does not matter.

This is surprising, Kafka-like logs are all strictly ordered.

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Re:Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distribut... by cduzz on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:50AM (#42814282)
* within a partition
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Re:Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distribut... by trollbridge on Friday January 24, 2025 @09:52PM (#42819041)
The reason I made ordering not matter is so that multiple peers don’t have to worry about keeping the exact same order when appending to each other’s logs.

The log entries do have timestamps on them. You can sort by timestamp, but a peer has the right to append an new entry that’s older than the latest timestamp.

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