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A highly optimized, thread-per-core message broker built from scratch in Rust, utilizing io_uring for zero-copy, low-latency commit log streaming.
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Ringlog – A highly optimized thread-per-core message broker
by paperplaneflyr·May 22, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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io_uring implementation bypasses OS thread context switches for zero-copy disk I/O.
Strengths
- •Thread-per-core design eliminates synchronization overhead on the hot path.
- •Kernel-user ownership passing achieves true zero-copy buffer management.
- •Append-only WAL with physical offset ACKs ensures precise message ordering.
Weaknesses
- •Linux-only support limits adoption compared to cross-platform alternatives.
- •Single-node scope lacks the clustering features needed for production scale.
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Target Audience
Systems programmers building high-throughput event streaming pipelines
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A highly-optimized, single-node, mini-Kafka broker built from scratch in Rust. This system leverages a thread-per-core architecture powered by io_uring via the tokio-uring framework, bypassing traditional OS thread context switches and synchronization overhead.
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