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title: "Discussion on \"What Netflix's Write-Ahead Log Taught Me About Building Reliable Data Systems\" | Hashnode"
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# [What Netflix's Write-Ahead Log Taught Me About Building Reliable Data Systems](https://techwithkashi.hashnode.dev/what-netflix-s-write-ahead-log-taught-me-about-building-reliable-data-systems?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Netflix built a pluggable, distributed write-ahead log to fix data consistency across Cassandra, Kafka, and EVCache. Here's how it works.

Sep 4 · 6 min read · techwithkashi.hashnode.dev  
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