Paper Trail

An append-only audit trail that makes sensitive administrative actions reviewable.

SuccessfulSpring BootPostgreSQLKafka

100%privileged actions traced

< 2sevent availability

2025year explored

The question

How can a small team gain trustworthy accountability without operating a heavyweight compliance platform?

I separated event creation from presentation, added integrity checks, and designed an operator-friendly investigation view.

The prototype made every privileged change traceable to an actor, reason, and immutable event sequence.

Security evidence only matters when operators can retrieve and interpret it under pressure.