The Question
Design
Distributed Persistent Message Log System
Design a high-throughput, distributed, and fault-tolerant message queue system capable of handling millions of events per second. The system must provide strict ordering within a partition, support long-term data retention, and ensure zero data loss during broker failures. Detail the storage engine, replication mechanism, and how you would optimize for maximum disk and network I/O performance.
Raft
ISR
Zero-Copy
Page Cache
LSM-Log
TCP
S3
NVMe
March 13, 2026