Continuing to work on a high-performance observability / log analysis SaaS:

The basic idea is to make Regex-scans so fast/cheap that "a metric" can be anything numeric in the text and "tracing" is useless because you can just log (and filter) more things. Turns out Regex at >200GB/s solves a lot of problems.

Metric cardinality explosion is immediately a non-issue, histograms have arbitrary resolution, and you can get from histogram pixels back to the underlying logs. And no need to instrument everything thrice for logs, metrics and traces.

The next big feature I'm aiming for is needle-in-a-haystack searches. The data block headers support it already, but the scan engine doesn't yet use it.

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mr_echo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

like the idea how many clients do you have ?

	▲	Drahflow 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Zero to two, depending on how you count, exactly. It's a side-project from our consultancy work. We're two deep technologists and so far entertaining the notion that we're very bad at (product) sales. But we're trying to learn that now.