Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Introducing S2

s2.dev

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 206 posts

Re: Introducing S2

#21

Post by thaumasiotes »

jsheard wrote: post #19
iambateman wrote: post #16

These folks knowingly chose to spend the rest of their careers explaining that they are not, in fact, S3.

How many of these letter-number storage services are there now? S3, B2, R2, S2...

S3 isn't the name of the service - that's "Amazon Simple Storage Service". S3 is a nickname, short for "Simple Storage Service".

Re: Introducing S2

#22

Post by shikhar »

solatic wrote: post #20

Help me understand - you build on top of AWS, which charges $0.09/GB for egress to the Internet, yet you're charging $0.05/GB for egress to the Internet? Sounds like you're subsidizing egress from AWS? Or do you have access to non-public egress pricing?

(Founder) We are not charging in preview. At the scale where it matters, we will work it out. Definitely some assumptions in here.

Re: Introducing S2

#23

Post by bushido »

I wish more dev-tools startups would focus on clearly explaining the business use cases, targeting a slightly broader audience beyond highly technical users. I visited several pages on the site before eventually giving up.

I can sort of grasp what the S2 team is aiming to achieve, but it feels like I’m forced to perform unnecessary mental gymnastics to connect their platform with the specific problems it can solve for a business or product team.

I consider myself fairly technical and familiar with many of the underlying concepts, but I still couldn’t work out the practical utility without significant effort.

It’s worth noting that much of technology adoption is driven by technical product managers and similar stakeholders. However, I feel this critical audience is often overlooked in the messaging and positioning of developer tools like this.

Re: Introducing S2

#26

Post by do_not_redeem »

shikhar wrote: post #18
iambateman wrote: post #16

These folks knowingly chose to spend the rest of their careers explaining that they are not, in fact, S3.

(Founder) well 50% of our name is different

You should have gone with S4 tbh. The suits love bigger numbers. Super Simple Stream Store.

Re: Introducing S2

#27

Post by shikhar »

do_not_redeem wrote: post #26
shikhar wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Founder) well 50% of our name is different

You should have gone with S4 tbh. The suits love bigger numbers. Super Simple Stream Store.

(Founder) I have definitely received that advice before :) - to not seem like a regression from S3. But as an abbreviation for Stream Store, it made sense.

Re: Introducing S2

#28

Post by hnlmorg »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #21
jsheard wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many of these letter-number storage services are there now? S3, B2, R2, S2...

S3 isn't the name of the service - that's "Amazon Simple Storage Service". S3 is a nickname, short for "Simple Storage Service".

While you’re technically correct, for all intents and purposes it is called S3 even by AWS themselves.

Re: Introducing S2

#29

Post by eterm »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #21
jsheard wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many of these letter-number storage services are there now? S3, B2, R2, S2...

S3 isn't the name of the service - that's "Amazon Simple Storage Service". S3 is a nickname, short for "Simple Storage Service".

Nickname implies it's unofficial, but S3 is very much the product name too:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/

"Simple storage service" is used once. "S3" is used throughout.

Re: Introducing S2

#30

Post by masterj »

So is this basically WarpStream except providing a lower-level API instead of jumping straight to Kafka compatibility?

An S3-level primitive API for streaming seems really valuable in the long-term if adopted

Post reply on HN