redpanda db, the observable object database, and event sourcing

[unicomp21]

@dotnwat if we slightly modified the map merge in protobuf, where messages in a map get merged between src/dst instead of being replaced, and left list merging alone (ie it already appends src values to the list), building event sourcing patterns using protobuf on redpanda becomes pretty slick, right? We'd have all the features we need for supporting data islands, ie merging deltas into snapshots, right in protobuf.

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf-go/blob/5aec41b4809b9822a34e17acd06ae9ae9f41c13d/internal/impl/codec_map.go#L380-L380

Am I making sense?

[unicomp21]

https://github.com/unicomp21/protobuf-go/pull/1/files

[dotnwat]

Yeh I think this makes sense! This would run potentially as a service on top of redpanda?

[unicomp21]

Yes!