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tl;dr don’t use an architecture from the on-premise era where storage and compute are coupled together.

Great project. Zig and Rust working together in harmony to make it easier to cross-compile Rust for different targets. We use this to great effect to build for x86 and ARM chips in…

We're really liking the combination of using Rust, AWS Lambda functions, and ECS Fargate. Everything runs well in ARM, but make sure to use `musl` instead of `glibc` - we've found …

Yeah I think this is where Datadog excelled and Splunk struggled. Design is clearly better at Datadog, especially the onboarding UX and workflow.

Maybe, but the Splunk query language is reasonably well liked by its users, at least in the security space. Much more approachable than SQL, which seems to be what all new tools th…

I worked at Cisco following an acquisition. I tend to agree with this comment about the upper stacks :) However, AppDynamics and Duo seem to be doing well at Cisco from what I can …

We’re also giving this a shot. The annual Splunk bill at our last startup exploded from $10k to $1M when we reached 1TB of logs generated per day, which is actually an easy thresho…

How do you think Splunk will fare as more companies move to public clouds? Seems unbeatable on-prem, which probably means that the company is a good match for Cisco.

Agreed. Costs plummet when you use S3 as the storage medium for these massive log data sets. I think S3 is much faster to query than most people realize. Just have to be smart abou…

Looks really cool! Great work! Had a pricing question. Say we connected a log forwarder like Vector to send data to Clickhouse Cloud, once per second. If each write unit is $0.0125…

We are using Rust to build a fast log event database. The workload includes a lot of asynchronous networking I/O and parallelized CPU-intensive work, like indexing and SIMD-acceler…

> But the biggest reason to RiiR is safety. 100% agree. We had a C++ service that made heavy use of libcurl. A particular release of libcurl introduced some memory safety problems …

Reading an enumeration of architecture options can be helpful, but I've probably found more value in works like Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" that cover fundamenta…

To be honest, I feel bad for the engineering team at Equifax. The vulnerability that compromised their system was a bug in an open-source Java library, Apache Struts, and security …

My father saw his biggest entrepreneurial success as a father of four kids in junior high and high school. I believe his schedule looked roughly like this: - 6am work at home - 8am…

Strangely enough, Stoicism. I try to recognize what I can control and what I can't, and I try not to let things I can't control scare me into inaction.

Luminus - compilation of Clojure libraries for web dev. Postgres.

We use C++ heavily at Accompany. The CTO co-founder was one of the chief engineers at Google Analytics where most of the highly scaled systems were written in C++. Perhaps you coul…

Anecdotal data point: my father was an entrepreneur for 100% of my childhood. It was rare for him to miss dinner with us, and he attended easily more than 60% of our extracurricula…

From what I understand, Homejoy was one of the fastest growing companies in YC history, and if I'm not mistaken, it closed down in part because it pursued too much international gr…

Thank you for sharing. Despite some scientific fumbles, I thought Interstellar did a great job portraying the gravitational lensing effects of black- and worm-holes. I just wish th…