Open-sourcing LogDevice: A distributed data store for sequential data

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This post announces the open-sourcing of LogDevice, a distributed data store for sequential data developed and deployed within Facebook. LogDevice provides durability, high availability, and total order of records under failures, making it suitable for workloads like event streaming, replication pipelines, transaction logs, and deferred work journals. It also introduces LDShell, a command-line administration tool.