A fun read! My brother actually lives on Lord Howe Island along with his wife and 2 daughters. I’m visiting them in a few weeks too actually. I will share this tidbit with them haha.
About 2 years ago I was intrigued by distributed systems, particularly distributed consensus algorithms. Going down the rabbit hole of replicated logs, I decided to build my own Kafka event streaming platform. Since then, Kerala has been my hobby side project.
There’s still so much left to do:
- topic partitioning
- file-based storage engine (currently in-memory)
- finish client streaming apis
- much more, checkout the roadmap on the Github.