Tag
log-compaction
- Aug 10, 2026 Retention Policy as a Storage Budget How per-stream retention windows turn into bytes on disk, why compression and index size dominate the estimate, and where deletion actually costs money. observability
- Jul 24, 2025 Log Compaction, Retention, and Replay Retention deletes from the start of a log and compaction keeps only the newest value per key, which turns the log into a replayable store of current state. backend systems
- Feb 28, 2023 Snapshot Install and the Cost of Compacting a Consensus Log How snapshots bound log growth, why installing a snapshot is a different operation from sending entries, and where the boundary index and chunking interact with elections. distributed systems