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Question for programmers re “Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975) Where do logs fit in this idea?
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Ie, how much can you infer about an information processing system if you only have its logs to work with (both normal ops and crash) with no access to code/database schemas? Assume logs are typical design, verbose, unencrypted, unobfuscated
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There's logs the pop culture concept and logs the computer science concept. Which do you mean? Jay Kreps (Kafka / Confluent) is the go to grey on logs the computer science concept. In particular, logs as system architecture building block, which is on point.
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Logs in CS: more formal as a concept, and geared toward the complete replication of state. The term is prevalent in database architecture, logs being central to DB implementations. Kafka's innovation is to break out logs as a first class systems building block.
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