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Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications

by Stephan Ewen restate.dev published 2025-01-22

Distributed coordination makes application complex and brittle. Because all systems eventually build on logs, we can use a shared-log approach to eliminate most coordination. We discuss this conceptually and show how this is practically implemented in the open source project Restate.
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