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environments serving databases as large as 1TB. Many companies such as
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Shopify and Heroku use Bolt-backed services every day.
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## A message from the author
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> The original goal of Bolt was to provide a simple pure Go key/value store and to
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> not bloat the code with extraneous features. To that end, the project has been
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> a success. However, this limited scope also means that the project is complete.
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> Maintaining an open source database requires an immense amount of time and energy.
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> Changes to the code can have unintended and sometimes catastrophic effects so
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> even simple changes require hours and hours of careful testing and validation.
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> Unfortunately I no longer have the time or energy to continue this work. Bolt is
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> in a stable state and has years of successful production use. As such, I feel that
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> leaving it in its current state is the most prudent course of action.
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> If you are interested in using a more featureful version of Bolt, I suggest that
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> you look at the CoreOS fork called [bbolt](https://github.com/coreos/bbolt).
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- Ben Johnson ([@benbjohnson](https://twitter.com/benbjohnson))
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## Table of Contents
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- [Getting Started](#getting-started)

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