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Re:Ask HN: How do you log application events? on Friday May 01, 2015 @11:01AM (#9471821)
Back in 2012, we talked about our foundation for this at Indeed:

Blog: http://engineering.indeed.com/blog/2012/11/logrepo-enabling-...

Talk: http://engineering.indeed.com/talks/logrepo-enabling-data-dr...

tl; dr: a human-readable log format that uses a sortable UID and arbitrary types/fields, captured via a log4j syslog-ng adapter, and aggregated to a central server for manual access and processing

Re:List of April Fools' Day Announcements on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:13PM (#9305614)
Re:Boxcar: A self-balancing distributed services protocol on Monday December 17, 2012 @09:31PM (#4935746)
Curious to hear opinions from people who've done service load distribution with hardware or software load balancers...