Great product and wish them best of luck. Had great success using with Hive with their Apache Hadoop plugin for doing quick analysis.
Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
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Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#12I saw these folks at gluecon. Haven't looked at a ton of dashboard solutions, but I found Kibana to be pretty compelling, simply because it was trivial to get the elk stack up and running and input arbitrary data. I am not as interested in log data, more in business metrics.
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#13I'm sitting in Elasticsearch training right now (during a caffeine break). These are some really great guys that know their stuff, and they're committed to contributing back to the OSS version everything that makes sense. They contribute a ton of code back to Lucene and employ a lot of the brightest minds in this space.
On the product side, I'm sitting here being amazed at some of the problems they've solved very elegantly. Elasticsearch has a bright future.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#14If people are curious as to why VCs are interested in open-source businesses: http://indexventures.com/news-room/blog/a-perfect-storm-now-...
Open-source is becoming the only way to develop (and, especially, maintain) complex software. The fact that the engineers can gain employer-independent reputations gives them an incentive that's astronomically expensive (as hedge fund compensation goes) to replicate otherwise.
The world is finally figuring out that it's impossible to employ top talent, but that it can be quite lucrative to sponsor it.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#15I'm sitting in Elasticsearch training right now (during a caffeine break). These are some really great guys that know their stuff, and they're committed to contributing back to the OSS version everything that makes sense. They contribute a ton of code back to Lucene and employ a lot of the brightest minds in this space. On the product side, I'm sitting here being amazed at some of the problems they've solved very ele…
I'm starting a new job in August where I will focus on building search-based applications with Elasticsearch. I honestly can't wait. This news makes me happy as I know I'll be learning relevant technology.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#16I'm sitting in Elasticsearch training right now (during a caffeine break). These are some really great guys that know their stuff, and they're committed to contributing back to the OSS version everything that makes sense. They contribute a ton of code back to Lucene and employ a lot of the brightest minds in this space. On the product side, I'm sitting here being amazed at some of the problems they've solved very ele…
I'm also in Elasticsearch training (Victoria, London). Impressed with the trainers, both core developers with a passion for the product. Bodes well.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#17If people are curious as to why VCs are interested in open-source businesses: http://indexventures.com/news-room/blog/a-perfect-storm-now-...
Open-source is becoming the only way to develop (and, especially , maintain) complex software. The fact that the engineers can gain employer-independent reputations gives them an incentive that's astronomically expensive (as hedge fund compensation goes) to replicate otherwise. The world is finally figuring out that it's impossible to employ top talent, but that it can be quite lucrative to sponsor it.
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#18Awesome! I make heavy use of elasticsearch and am very happy with the performance.
It's typically the rest of the pipeline now that causes most of the latency whereas search used to be the bulk of the duration of a request.
It has also spurred other entities to improve their search performance :)
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#19If people are curious as to why VCs are interested in open-source businesses: http://indexventures.com/news-room/blog/a-perfect-storm-now-...
Open-source is becoming the only way to develop (and, especially , maintain) complex software. The fact that the engineers can gain employer-independent reputations gives them an incentive that's astronomically expensive (as hedge fund compensation goes) to replicate otherwise. The world is finally figuring out that it's impossible to employ top talent, but that it can be quite lucrative to sponsor it.
It's not impossible to employ top talent. That is a very ignorant statement.
Re: Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million
#20What I find interesting about the Elasticsearch story is the success it has given that the core product (the search server) is completely open source.
My fear is that with money comes an 'Enterprise' edition.
I was in a class with the founders a few months ago - for whatever it's worth, they're vehemently opposed to segregating functionality like this.
Their plans are to offer support, and make their bones that way. Elasticsearch is a complex enough product at scale that this would probably be quite lucrative.