zhihu/kids

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1214 stars · 205 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Kids is a log aggregation system written in C++ that collects and distributes messages across machines, inspired by Facebook's Scribe with a pub/sub model ported from Redis. It speaks the Redis protocol, supports real-time subscription, distributed collection, and message persistence with no third-party dependencies.

Use cases

• aggregate logs from many servers into one place
• pub/sub message streaming between services
• collect and persist event streams in real time
• replace Scribe for log collection
• subscribe to log topics with redis-cli
• centralize application logs for processing

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, dependency-free log collector speaking the Redis protocol
• you want Scribe-style distributed log aggregation with pub/sub
• you run Linux servers and want simple C++ deployment or Docker

When to avoid

• you need a modern, actively developed streaming platform like Kafka
• you need rich ecosystem tooling, monitoring, or cloud-native integrations
• you need guaranteed exactly-once delivery or high-throughput partitioning

Facets

service · maturity maintenance

message-queue streaming logging microservices backend cpp self-hosted log-aggregation pub-sub redis-protocol scribe-like message-persistence messaging devops linux macos docker

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