Why Append-Only Data Structures Are Everywhere in Distributed Systems


The Problem With Mutation

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What Append-Only Actually Means

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Where You See It in the Wild

Write-Ahead Logs (WAL)

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Kafka and the Log Abstraction

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Event Sourcing

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The Trade-offs

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Wrapping Up

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