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I could only imagine they want to replace their existing infra with this as a potential cost saving measure.

It’s an ourobouros of influences: the Husky creators left DD to make Warpstream, Warpstream inspired Quickwit, and now Quickwit is joining DD.

and Confluent acquired WarpStream

No. Quickwit was founded well before Warpstream and it did not inspire us.

The Husky blog post was released after we released a few versions of quickwit if I recall correctly. It was not an inspiration either.

As far as I know, the similarities are fortuitous.

And then I'm sure they'll pass the savings onto customers given the current crazy high prices.