Distributed Services with Go

The protobuf compiler supports extensions that can compile your protobuf into code using your own compilation logic. For example, you might want several structs to have a common method. With protobuf, you can write a plugin to generate that method automatically.

I will consistently use the following terms to mean these things:

• Record—the data stored in our log.
• Store—the file we store records in.
• Index—the file we store index entries in.
• Segment—the abstraction that ties a store and an index together.
• Log—the abstraction that ties all the segments together.