Kayak

A raft based stream service.

Description

Inspired by kafka, but targeting simplicity.

Kayak is an streaming server built on top of Raft, using the go library implementation from Hashicorp.

TODO: GRPC/Connect description for api.

Running Kayak

TODO: describe docker compose. (Earthly or raw Dockerfile)

Failures

Request Forwarding.

If a node receives a write request and is not the leader, it will forward on the request to the current leader.