End the "replicated XOR sharded" split: S shard groups, each a
replication group at RF with its own elected leader, leaders balanced
across nodes; any gateway hash-routes.
- One unified write surface: /items,/embeddings,/signals hash-route to
the owning shard group's leader (ShardRouter FNV-1a) AND replicate at
RF. x-tidal-ack/x-tidal-seq, quorum await, NotLeader/QuorumTimeout are
per-group; NotLeader names the group.
- Rebalance verbs (L3): POST /cluster/shards/{id}/transfer (fenced
leadership move) + /cluster/shards/{id}/replicas (add/remove replica).
A ?shard= selector threads through every per-shard admin verb and is
propagated on intra-group forwards (ShardReplica::admin_path). S=1 is
byte-for-byte (no selector, no shard in NotLeader body).
- Tier-3 exit gate (cluster_sharding.rs): 3 nodes × 3 shards × RF=3 over
real OS processes — SIGKILL a node under ack=quorum load → only its
shard-leaderships re-elect, reads never stop, zero acked loss across
random kill points; plus a rebalance-verb test. Harness:
MultiProcCluster::start_sharded.
- tidal-stress drives the single path (WritePath::Leader|Sharded gone),
spreading writes round-robin across gateways or pinning --leader-url.
- Throughput: local 3×3 sustains 3,000 quorum signal-writes/s @ 0% err,
~30% CPU, lag ~0 (generator-bound). ≥5,000/s + ≥2.5× scaling is Ref-A.
Known follow-up (tracked): per-group-aware node readiness and cross-node
read fan-out under PARTIAL placement.
README.md — tool reference pinned to the m11p5 cluster (tidaldb-cluster ns,
pod-DNS targets, local-path storage); retires the stale 10.43.99.11-13 ClusterIPs.
WORKLOG.md — m11p5 migration + T3 gate (10/10 kills, max 6157ms), the three
run-costing traps (Longhorn storage, exec leader-detection, kubectl wait hang),
reseed behavior, and the vector-DB positioning note. Records a m11p5 finding:
a reseeded node stays NotReady forever on an idle cluster because the
first-converged readiness check needs observed replication traffic — flagged as
an upstream fix, not a manifest bandaid.
PROCESS.md — the repeatable five-beat checkpoint loop, the operational-traps
table, the T4 elasticity flow (now unblocked on m11p5, with the idle-readiness
watch-item), and the T-read vector-search gate that still needs a recall oracle
built before any read-path/vector-DB claim.
Replace ScoredCandidate.signal_snapshot Vec<(String,f64)> with
SmallVec<[(SignalKey,f64); 4]> where SignalKey is Static(&'static str)
| Owned(Arc<str>):
- Compile-time-constant labels (sort bases, relevance, co_engagement,
preference_affinity) -> Static: zero allocation, pointer-copy clone.
- Dynamic {signal}_boost/_penalty/_decay labels built once per query in a
RuleLabels hoist (was format! per-candidate-per-rule), shared by Arc.
Cohort rescore hoisted the same way.
- scored accumulator pre-sized to candidates.len().
- Owned Strings rebuilt only at the two response-assembly sites (<= limit).
Byte-identical output: full 1896-test lib suite green. Measured win
(cargo bench --bench ranking, committed-base vs working-tree):
score_200_hot 23.89->21.04us (-11.9%), score_200_trending
27.66->25.85us (-6.5%), score_200_full_pipeline 27.88->26.97us (-3.3%).
smallvec promoted from the lock to a direct dep (no new dependency
surface). perf-sweep doc updated; T2 (per-term DashMap collapse) next.
ClusterNode hosts a BTreeMap<ShardId, Arc<ShardReplica>>: writes hash-route
to the owning shard leader, reads scatter over shard groups. In-group
shard==region preserved so the engine and tidal-net are untouched; S=1 stays
byte-for-byte (today's cluster is a 1-shard × RF=N group). Topology grows
shard-group awareness; membership, election, forward, reseed, and join_boot
thread ShardId through.
Proven by an in-process 2×2 RF=2 gRPC test plus S=1 parity, incl. tier-3
real-OS-process failover. clippy/fmt clean.
Kind-3 term markers in the WAL stream, STREAM-relative vote frontiers,
heartbeat-only divergence detection + quarantine, and fenced promote.
Elections converge in 0.6–1.0s; zero acked-write loss across all kill points.
Closes G5 (leaderless recovery) from the v0.9 wave.
WAL segment format: 8-byte TSEG header (magic + version byte + 3 reserved)
prepended to every new segment. Legacy headerless segments (m0-m11p3) read
as implicit v0 — no migration. Unknown magic/version surfaces as
WalError::SegmentFormatUnknown at open time; foreign files are never
repaired or truncated (fixes the silent data-loss path from the p3 rollout
incident where torn-tail repair zeroed a follower's unreadable segments).
Catch-up transport: FAILED_PRECONDITION ("snapshot required") and stream
errors that skip the shard now arm a timer retry (re-arm-on-skip is the
load-bearing liveness fix — without it a skipped pull never re-fires and
the follower stays permanently behind). Single retry pending per shard;
CatchupRunner owns the Arc'd state shared between the retry tasks and the
transport. Test: tidal-net/tests/catchup_retry.rs covers the retry path.
Stress: k8s stress-job-t2a/t2b yaml + ops/stress-test-p3-t2 runbook.
ack=quorum gates replicated writes on a majority of the replica set durably
holding them: followers push their durably-applied frontier (ReportApplied,
once per apply round, decoupled from ship acks), the leader folds frontier
reports + ship-ack hints + heal resumes into a leadership-scoped CommitIndex
(k-th-largest durable mark), and handlers await it through an async
watch-channel bridge (zero parked threads per waiter). Honest timeouts:
retryable 503 naming the laggards; x-tidal-seq on every cluster write.
Follower blob applies are batched under group-commit fsyncs (22x seeding).
Exit gate: 167/167 leader-SIGKILL kill points, zero acked-write loss.
Seven-dimension review pass (all confirmed findings fixed):
- WAL blob drain now ABORTS on the first write failure instead of reusing
the failed seqno mid-drain (a torn record buried mid-segment would
truncate every later acked record on replay)
- apply_replicated_blobs waits every staged append even after a mid-batch
failure, parses metadata once, and moves records into Arcs shared with
the WAL writer (no deep clone per record on the follower apply path)
- CommitIndex: zero-peer fast path now respects demotion (active checked
under lock before the single-replica return), k-th-largest uses
select_nth over a reused scratch buffer
- await_quorum: re-reads the index once after the deadline fires (no false
503 for a write that committed in the race window), warns when the
commit-watch bridge dies outside shutdown, zero-peer path checks active
- notify_applied report failures: WARN on the first failure of a streak,
INFO on recovery (a silently stalling frontier reads as unexplained
quorum 503s); receiver skips re-notifying unadvanced frontiers
- x-tidal-deduplicated: 1 marks dedup-suppressed signal writes (relayed
through forwards) so durability cursors can tell dedup from no-seqno
- docs: 167/167 kill-point record corrected in CHANGELOG; rolling-upgrade
order (leader first — a pre-m11p3 leader silently downgrades quorum
requests to leader-ack) in CHANGELOG + runbook §8; monitoring note for
report-loss diagnosis on the quorum-timeout alert
Verified: workspace clippy -D warnings (incl. cluster-e2e targets), full
tidaldb/tidal-net/tidal-server/tidalctl suites green, tier-3 multi-process
quorum suite green (8/8 kill points, zero acked loss, partition gate/recover).
m11p1 — decoupled ack/ship path: staged writes (seqno+WAL+relay-push,
microseconds) separate from group-commit fsync; ShipQueue batches+windows
outbound segments; receiver coalesces inbound chunks before applying.
Adds first tidaldb_cluster_* metrics.
m11p2 — leader WAL is now THE replicated log: fsynced batches feed a
bounded WalShipFeed and ship byte-identical to followers; WAL seqnos
survive restarts (relay-reset hazard gone). Item metadata and embeddings
journal kind-1/2 blob records on the same stream as signals; the m8p10
HTTP broadcast is deleted. StreamSegments catch-up is follower-pulled via
server-streaming RPC, triggered on gap detection, follower boot, and
leader heal nudge. Promote carries a stream baseline so peers skip
pre-stream history.
Gap analysis + 9-phase plan (m11p1-p9) from the experimental m8p10 cluster to an
enterprise-grade one, grounded in the 2026-06-10 live stress-test baselines:
replicated /signals ~90/s vs sharded 3,669/s vs embedded ~82ns, plus four
live-observed incidents (restart leadership amnesia, side-channel broadcast bugs,
breaker-eaten heal, the 178ms ship) promoted to requirements. Phases: perf floor,
one replicated log, quorum acks (G4), election+fencing (G5), membership/discovery,
sharding x RF, security, observability/ops, chaos CI — each with a testable
Ref-A exit gate; release waves v0.9 credible / v1.0 scalable / v1.1 enterprise.
Indexed in docs/README.md; pointer from ROADMAP's Post-M8 Follow-ups.
New workspace crate: an open-loop, coordinated-omission-corrected HTTP load
generator + capacity ramp for the standalone and multi-process cluster surfaces,
modeling a thepeach feed session (feed reads + view/like/skip signals + search,
signal-dominated per their user-graph spec). Throttleable target rate, ramp
presets (smoke/quick/peach-100k/max) or rps:secs specs, peach/reads/writes/custom
mixes, leader vs sharded write paths, per-op p50/p90/p99/p999/max latency, a
backpressure-aware status breakdown (429/408/503/4xx/5xx/transport), and a verdict
translated to supported DAU. Runs in-cluster as a k8s Job (tidal-stress/k8s/).
Open-loop scheduler (scheduler.rs) fires at a fixed arrival rate and measures
latency from each request's intended send time, so a server stall inflates the
percentiles a closed-loop test hides; it shed-and-counts rather than blocking when
the in-flight cap is reached. Pure-Rust (tokio + reqwest/rustls), no engine deps.
Findings on the live 3-region k3s cluster (docs/ops/stress-test-thepeach.md):
reads scale to thousands/s at <15ms p99; the replicated /signals path saturates at
~90 signals/s (single-leader funnel + 2-worker write pool + synchronous gRPC ship);
the sharded path sustains 3,669 signals/s at 0 errors and ~27% cluster CPU (≈ the
100k-DAU peak, knee not reached). Overload degrades gracefully (429; 0 pod
restarts). thepeach's planned in-process embedding sidesteps all of it (write ≈82ns).
Two correctness bugs in multi-process cluster mode (m8p10), both found live on a
real 3-pod k3s cluster while validating the deployment, both invisible to the
existing in-process / unauthenticated test suites:
1. Forwarded item/embedding writes dropped on the floor. create_item /
write_embedding gated the leader's peer broadcast on `if internal { return }`.
A write to a NON-leader gateway is forwarded to the leader with the internal
marker set (loop-prevention), so it hit that branch and terminated WITHOUT
broadcasting — the item landed only on the leader. Signals were unaffected
(the WAL relay ships regardless of the marker), which masked it. Fix: gate on
leadership, not the marker — a follower applying a marked broadcast/heal
terminates; the leader (external OR forwarded) always fans out. Forwarded
writes now return the {replicated_to,failed} report instead of a bodyless null.
2. Heal item/embedding backfill 401'd whenever TIDAL_API_KEY is set.
post_marked_blocking sent the internal marker but no Authorization header. The
marker is a trust signal, not an auth bypass (the bearer middleware runs
first), so every backfill POST was rejected 401 — a region that missed an item
while down stayed permanently inconsistent at lag 0. Unauthenticated tests
never caught it. Fix: thread TIDAL_API_KEY into RegionClusterState and attach
it (same key on every region) to the backfill POSTs.
Verified live: forwarded writes via follower gateways converge to all 3 regions;
a region scaled to 0 during an item write backfills on heal (item_failures=0).
Follow-up: add multiproc regression tests with auth for both paths.
The deploy step did 'kubectl set image deployment/tidaldb' on every image
build, coupling image builds to a standalone roll. Deployment is manual via
kustomize from the orchard9-k3sf ops repo (its contract: no CI/CD deploy). The
one tidal-server binary serves both standalone and multi-process 'cluster
--region' modes, so this image covers the m8p10 3/3 cluster deploy too. Adds an
explicit 'm8p10' image tag for deterministic manifest pinning.
Splits monolithic cluster.rs into tidal-server/src/cluster/ modules. Adds redeliver-missed
relay, bounded HLC drift, lag tracking, and reconcile idempotence. Five new tier-3 test suites
(chaos, lifecycle, multiproc, region, routes, runbook) all green. Docs, CHANGELOG, and ROADMAP
updated with G4/G5/G6 known gaps.
Partition recovery (heal_region) and await_convergence never worked over real
GrpcTransports: redeliver_missed sent to entry.source_shard (the LEADER's
shard), but a follower's transport only knows its own shard as a peer
(self-loop wiring in tidal-server::cluster), so every recovery ship failed
the peer lookup — and the error was swallowed by 'let _ ='. ChannelTransport
ignores the destination, which is why the in-process suite never caught it.
Found live on k3s: POST /cluster/partition + writes + /cluster/heal left the
region at lag=3 forever, no log line.
Fix: ship to transport.local_shard() (matching the eager path's
send_segment(ShardId(region.0), ...)); keep entry.source_shard in the payload
(receiver advances applied_seqno per SOURCE shard). WARN on ship failure
instead of dropping it. Adds a RecordingTransport regression test that locks
dest == local_shard + payload source == leader — the exact case channels
cannot catch. cargo test: 263 replication + 13 testing + tidal-server all
pass.
Resolves every finding in docs/reviews/M0-M10-code-review-2026-06-08-pass2.md
across the engine, network, server, and CLI crates: session restore,
replication/CRDT, WAL format and recovery, storage indexes, query/ranking
executors, cohort/community governance, and scatter-gather routing.
Adds regression tests:
- review_pass2_creator_search_filter
- review_pass2_d_replication
- review_pass2_query_for_session
- review_pass2_storage_indexes_bitmap_cache
- review_pass2_zone_a_sessions
Verified: cargo clippy -D warnings and full test suite green across all crates.
Document the six issues a follow-up adversarial sweep surfaced in the
M0-M10 remediation diff and their fixes (code already landed):
- BLOCKER warm-tier double-count was a half-fix (read side only); now
bounded on read + write (hour_agg anchored at last_min) + day tier.
- CRITICAL W22 stale-index scrub now wired into the item overwrite path.
- CRITICAL checkpoint read() made side-effect-free; temp-sweep moved to
the writable recover() path.
- WARNING W13 partition_id wired at construction; W22-class social-graph
/collection u32 truncation routed through checked entity_as_u32.
Updates the green-state line (1672 lib tests, clippy -D on all crates).
- Eliminate the tidal/ self-contained doc mirror; docs now have two canonical
homes (root *.md and docs/), with planning/specs/research/reviews moved up
- Remove stale .agents/skills and .ai mirrors; canonicalize skills under .claude/
- Add pre-commit hook + scripts/check-docs.sh doc-guard + scripts/install-hooks.sh
- Implement M0-M10 seven-dimension review findings across engine, net, server,
and tidalctl (durability, replication, query, WAL, storage, CLI hardening)
Resolves the 142 findings from tidal/docs/reviews/CODE_REVIEW_m0-m10.md across
the engine, server, net, and CLI surfaces:
- WAL/session-journal durability, checkpoint format, and crash-recovery hardening
- Replication shipper/receiver, tenant isolation, and migration paths
- Cluster scatter-gather, router, standalone server + health/offload endpoints
- tidalctl refactored into command modules with JSON output and WAL-state tooling
- Cohort, governance, signal-ledger, and vector-registry correctness fixes
- Expanded UAT/integration/durability test coverage across all milestones
Three changes closing M8 gaps identified during verification:
1. ROADMAP.md: Mark m8p8 and m8p10 as PARTIAL (not COMPLETE).
Added Known Gaps table (G1: in-process transport, G2: tier-3
tests, G3: hash inconsistency).
2. SimulatedCluster transport now pluggable via ClusterConfig.transports.
Default (None) uses new ChannelTransport (crossbeam, same behavior).
When Some, accepts external transports (e.g., GrpcTransport from
tidal-net). Updated redeliver_missed to use &dyn Transport.
Zero regressions: all 1209 lib + 8 m8_uat tests pass unchanged.
3. Multi-process E2E test harness (tidal-server/tests/cluster_e2e.rs).
ClusterHarness spawns real tidal-server cluster OS processes,
allocates dynamic ports, generates topology YAML, polls health,
and cleans up via SIGTERM. Two tests: smoke (write + converge +
verify follower reads) and promote (leader change + continued writes).
Feature-gated behind cluster-e2e.
- Score and boost contributions now captured per candidate in signal_snapshot:
score_by_sort() returns (f64, Vec<(String, f64)>) with named signal values
(e.g. view_velocity, share_velocity, view, like). Boost contributions are
appended as `{signal}_boost`. compute_raw_score() threads the snapshot
through; score_inner() and score_personalized() write it onto ScoredCandidate
instead of always initialising to vec![].
- Quickstart switched from `trending` to `hot` profile. The trending profile
scores by 24h velocity, which requires signals to arrive over real elapsed
time to populate hour-level bucket aggregates — impossible in a self-contained
demo. The hot profile (AllTime view count + age decay) works with any timestamp
and produces clearly differentiated scores. Signals now use different counts
per item to drive meaningful ranking output.
Add support for defining ranking profiles in schema YAML, allowing
deployments to override builtin profiles with deployment-specific
signal names and tuning parameters.
- Add override_register() to ProfileRegistry for clean builtin replacement
- Add with_profiles() to TidalDbBuilder to thread schema profiles
- Parse profiles section in config.rs with full sort/strategy/agg support
- Validate that profile signal references exist in schema at startup
- Change load_schema() to return (Schema, Vec<RankingProfile>)
This closes the gap where the builtin for_you profile referenced
signals (view, like, share) that don't exist in deployment schemas,
causing all feed scores to normalize to 1.0.
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After a pod restart, in-memory indexes (universe bitmap, category,
format, creator, tags, duration, created_at) were empty because they
were only populated by write_item_with_metadata() calls. This caused
/health to report items: 0 and queries to return no results despite
data persisting on disk in fjall storage.
Add rebuild_item_indexes() which scans the items keyspace for Tag::Meta
entries on startup and repopulates all indexes from stored metadata.
Update m2_uat crash recovery test to assert indexes survive restart
without rewriting items.
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rust:1.91-slim doesn't include a C++ compiler, which cc-rs needs.
The standalone/cluster Dockerfiles use the full rust:1.91 image so
they weren't affected.
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Clap now reads PORT from the environment, accepting either a bare port
number (e.g. 8080 -> 0.0.0.0:8080) or a full host:port. CLI --listen
flag still takes precedence. Deploy Dockerfile defaults PORT=9500 and
removes the hardcoded --listen argument.
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Matches the response shape used by all other services in the
infrastructure (ok, service, cause on failure).
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docker/standalone/Dockerfile stays generic (port 9400, baked-in config,
auth healthcheck) for anyone running tidalDB independently.
docker/deploy/Dockerfile is purpose-built for k8s: port 9500, schema
mounted at runtime, persistent data dir, fixed UID for PVC ownership.
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Add /health/startup and /health/live probes, flip readiness to 503 on
SIGTERM so k8s stops routing before drain. Update standalone Dockerfile
for internal deployment: port 9500, schema mounted at runtime (not baked
in), persistent data dir, non-root user with fixed UID 10001.
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- Add tunnel.sh for SSH tunneling to vLLM server (port 8000 is
firewalled, tunnel required for local dev)
- Add dev:tunnel script to package.json for running dev with tunnel
- Add SYNAP_SPACE env var support to synap.ts, sends X-Memory-Space-Id
header when set
- Fix SSR hydration mismatch in person-switcher by deferring personId
render until client mount
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Deduplicate SSE chunk parsing from input-bar.tsx and vllm.ts into a
shared lib/sse.ts consumeSSEChunk helper. Add eslint + next lint config.
Silence monorepo lockfile warning via outputFileTracingRoot.
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- Extract redeliver_missed(tx, db, log) helper into cluster_transport.rs
- heal_region now removes partition then immediately ships any missed
batch-log entries to the healed follower's channel
- await_convergence refactored to call the same helper (no logic change)
- tidal-server: reload_text_index before search in cluster mode
- tidal-server: write_signal returns Result instead of panicking on unknown signal
- tidal-server: leader shows lag_events=0 (writes directly, no receiver thread)
- tidal-server: fix cluster mode error propagation (ServerError::from)
- docs/runbooks/cluster.md: add full cluster operations runbook
- docker/: add Dockerfile for containerised cluster deployment
- README.md: add tidal-server HTTP API getting-started section
- Split oversized source files per CODING_GUIDELINES §9
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Fix 9 compilation errors across tidal-server and testing/cluster.rs so
that `cargo run -p tidal-server -- standalone` works end-to-end.
Bugs fixed:
- cluster.rs: wrong return types `RetrieveResult`→`Results` and
`SearchResult`→`SearchResults` on retrieve/search helpers
- state.rs: `RegionId` imported from private path; now uses
`tidaldb::replication::RegionId`
- state.rs: missing `Ok()` wrapper on `ServerState::cluster()` return
- state.rs: cluster match arms returned `TidalError` where `ServerError`
required; added `.map_err(ServerError::from)` on write_item,
write_embedding, retrieve, search
- error.rs: `Result<T>` alias lacked default E param; callers in router
used two-arg form `Result<T, AppError>` — changed to
`Result<T, E = ServerError>`
- router.rs: `with_state()` called before cluster routes were added,
making `app` `Router<()>`; restructured to call `with_state` once at end
- router.rs: `TidalErrorWrapper(TidalError)` used to map `QueryError`;
fixed with `|e| TidalErrorWrapper(e.into())`
- router.rs: `Search::limit()` takes `u32` but code cast to `usize`
- router.rs: `bm25_score`/`semantic_score` are `f32` in SearchResultItem
but `f64` in response struct; added `.map(f64::from)` conversion
Also split cluster.rs into cluster.rs + cluster_transport.rs to stay
under the 600-line limit required by CODING_GUIDELINES §9.
Verified all README curl examples work:
POST /items, POST /embeddings, POST /signals, GET /feed, GET /search,
GET /health all return correct HTTP status codes and JSON responses.
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- Add milestone-level COMPLETE summary bullets for M0–M8 (only M8 had one)
- Fix m8p6 lib test count (1199 → 1206 after latest additions)
- Update iknowyou/Aeries date to 2026-02-24
- Each summary captures the key capabilities proved by that milestone
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