Posts on log-based brokers, streaming semantics, and the guarantees that hold when the network isn’t cooperating. Right now the running thread is Holocron — a learning-first take on Kafka-style event streaming — and the design decisions that follow from taking per-partition ordering as the load-bearing property.
Holocron: a Go-native distributed log with NATS JetStream ergonomics and Kafka semantics
Holocron is a single-binary Go distributed log broker. JetStream’s operational simplicity plus the per-partition ordering and Kafka-shaped log model JetStream lacks.