jasonhoch

Good question! Grafana is often reached for as a solution here, but it has some limitations (Note: most of these limitations are completely logical when you think of Grafana's target use case, server and software monitoring):

- advanced transformations are impossible or at a minimum unwieldy, especially for users who are not comfortable in e.g. SQL

- not optimized for advanced HMI for complex systems that move through multiple states. Software systems like to decompose into smaller, modular systems... the physical world does not cater to these abstractions

- It focuses on real-time and recent data. Our customers want to pore over and compare data for years after it is recorded.

- Lack of vertical integration with our customers data sources

Hey, co-founder here.

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Everyone here is familiar with the stack of software-focused CI/CD, infrastructure, application monitoring, and data pipeline technologies. All of these are square pegs in round holes for our users, and the process of duct-taping them together in a fast-moving, multidisciplinary hardware engineering organization leads to a lot of wasted time and frustration. A holistic platform that caters to our users' workflows will massively accelerate the important developments that we as a society need, and Nominal is excited to be a tide that lifts all boats.

We work on complex multi-modal data problems, building interfaces to the ever-changing landscape of data modeling, storage, and analysis technologies, and helping people determine important performance characteristics of their systems in minutes, not days (and soon, in sub-second time frames!). Our users build advanced energy systems, operate next-generation transportation platforms, and deploy assets to space.

If you want to apply your hard-earned software abilities to our customers... reach out!

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/nominal Check out my LinkedIn post for more: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7188234...

By clicking "Start Now", I try to visit https://dashboard.stripe.com/financial-connections/applicati... and it redirects me to https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/dashboard. Would love to see more!

Although, from reading the docs, a lot of the products that I'm interested are still "Coming Soon" (confusingly a different verbiage but identical in meaning to "Private Beta"?): - Transactions - Other data-powered products

Palantir responded in a statement to TheStreet.com: "There was no glitch in the software. Our platform has robust access and security controls. The customer also has rigorous protocols established to protect search warrant returns, which, in this case, the end user did not follow."

Source: https://www.thestreet.com/investing/palantir-shares-data-acc...

I agree with the thesis, but a voice in the back of my head was whispering "Newspeak..."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

Another comment mentioned that using a word with multiple meanings increases confusion.

I would argue that "writing" can mean "writing the tool" as well as "writing the art form." PG is talking about "writing the tool."

Confusingly, both the tool and the art form can convey ideas.

Certain ideas can be conveyed better by art ("a picture is worth a thousand words"). Visual art is typically more accessible than complex prose, but all forms of art can reach levels of inaccessibility that are frustrating to those not "in the know."

If you're a buy and hold investor... why in god's name would you use Robinhood?

Why do you want a gentle inbuilt mechanism to encourage consumption?

I really appreciated the way this post was structured. It worked forwards, not backwards. At the halfway point, I thought, "Oh, using the Apollo cache and the @client directive is a reasonable way to store and access client-side state," which is exactly what the OkCupid team thought at that point, too. Then they stopped, thought ahead a bit farther, and came up with reasons why it might not be the optimal choice.

Many posts are written about end results. "Look at this thing we built that is cool and works well." Thanks for sharing the full story, OkCupid.