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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.

Let me know what you think!

Love it! Also, I think it'd be more impressive to be consistent with your units when comparing page sizes e.g:

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Yes and we’re talking about distributed state machines, right? A raft append-only log usually contains state machine commands.

Considering we’re talking about distributed state-machines, I am curious why you would choose Paxos, a more complex algorithm over Raft. Raft, to my knowledge provides the same guarantees as Paxos, and is simpler to understand and implement.

I am no expert on Paxos - just hoping for an explanation.

Curious, why Paxos over Raft?

These kinds of posts are the reason I come to HN hoping to find. Amazing work! I'm going to come back and read some chapters over the weekend.

Has the help menu and all hahaha

Thanks so much!

Absolutely aware of dilution and all - it's more a matter of principle. I've worked my ass off and surely should have some entitlement to the company of helped build.

I was originally offered stock options in a staff pool - but I'm not happy with that. That will dilute so much and be worth nothing eventually. They're aware of this which is why we're discussing equity.

So hard..

I do have some upper-hand in that they simply cannot afford to replace me - they'd need to employ 2-3 new people plus all overheads of getting them up-to-speed with our process, adjusting to team dynamics etc..

Thanks for the advice.

Ok cool, this is roughly what I had in mind. Yes, first employee.

Just the 2 founders, no investors.

Stay for the 3-6 months, until you get your stake sorted, then get out in time before the shit hits the fan. Don't bother trying to reconcile relationships, don't get involved in the politics. It's a shame it's turned out this way, but by the sounds of it, it's not worth it. gone sour. There'll be another opportunity elsewhere for sure.

Ye I doubt the greedy guy would settle for a quarter when the other is getting 3..