Building Strata-Log: Designing a High-Throughput Distributed Log Aggregator in Go

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Building Strata-Log: Designing a High-Throughput Distributed Log Aggregator in Go

Log aggregation looks simple until the volume increases.

At low traffic levels, accepting a connection, reading log lines, and writing them to disk is straightforward. The problem changes when thousands of clients begin producing data concurrently and the system has to keep accepting connections without allowing slow storage operations to become a bottleneck.

Strata-Log started from that problem.

The goal was to build a high-throughput log aggregation engine in Go that could safely process large numbers of concurrent log streams over raw TCP while keeping memory usage predictable and the architecture understandable.

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Building Strata-Log: Designing a High-Throughput Distributed Log Aggregator in Go

Building Strata-Log: Designing a High-Throughput Distributed Log Aggregator in Go