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+## Goals of this project:
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+- Implement Kafka (distributed commit log service) in Go
+- Make operating simpler
+- Distribute a single binary
+- Improve performance
+- Use Raft for consensus
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+## TODO
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+- [x] Write and read segments of a commit log
+- [ ] Segment indexes
+- [ ] Writing over a network
+- [ ] Distributed replication
+- [ ] Etc...
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