well I'll be, there's the LMAX / Chronicle Queue "motif" again, known and understood long before it was openly "published", by at least a few of us who've been "around the block" programming-wise. Must be why I repeatedly find myself so impressed with the work you've all done and how far you've managed to take it.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/java-chronicle/WlYKeP1FrsM
LMAX...oh memories ;)