I&#x27;m pretty sure that this post inspired DL. It was written by Jay, one of the 3 founders of kafka (Jay, Jun, and Neha) and should be recommended reading for every software engineer if you&#x27;ve not read it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.linkedin.com&#x2F;distributed-systems&#x2F;log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.linkedin.com&#x2F;distributed-systems&#x2F;log-wha...</a><p>An ordered append only datastructure is rightfully called a log. The fact that text based files are called logs is just an annoying feature in common english usage.