We’re continuing to improve it - it’s a core implementation detail of our current project & company Estuary Flow (https://estuary.dev), which aims to further simplify and democratize low latency data products.
Everything big data is moving to blob storage these days, but streaming can lead to small files problem or longer latencies. File fragments stored locally with proxied readers seems like a simple solution to that.
[1] https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview-slides.htm...
we are looking forward to qualified replication in upcoming pg15.