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We are software builders at :heart:
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We're helping developers in building a better internet. If you love building amazing software, you're at the right address.
How we operate:
Disclaimer: I'm the founder
We are software builders at :heart:
CEO is a software engineer, COO is a software engineer and you guessed it; CTO is an engineer, too. We're helping developers in building a better internet. If you love building amazing software, you're at the right address.
How we operate:
CEO is a software engineer, COO is a software engineer and you guessed it; CTO is an engineer, too.
We're helping developers in building a better internet. If you love building amazing software, you're at the right address.
How we operate:
We are software builders at :heart:
CEO is a software engineer, COO is a software engineer and you guessed it; CTO is an engineer, too.
We’re helping developers in building a better internet. If you love building amazing software, you’re at the right address.
How we operate:
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We are software builders at :heart:
CEO is a software engineer, COO is a software engineer and you guessed it; CTO is an engineer, too.
We’re helping developers in building a better internet. If you love building amazing software, you’re at the right address.
How we operate:
https://betterstack.com/careers/engineering
email us at join@betterstack.com
We are software builders at :heart:
CEO is a software engineer, COO is a software engineer and you guessed it; CTO is an engineer, too.
We're helping developers in building a better internet. If you love building amazing software, you're at the right address.
How we operate:
https://betterstack.com/careers/engineering
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PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and ClickHouse are all impressive pieces of software. We use both PostgreSQL and ClickHouse at Logtail.
ClickHouse shines for true OLAP use-cases and is very hard to beat performance-wise when configured properly.
Example:
> Poor inserts and much higher disk usage (e.g., 2.7x higher disk usage than TimescaleDB) at small batch sizes (e.g., 100-300 rows/batch).
If your consistency requirements allow, you could use the Buffer Table Engine to get blazing fast inserts: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/engines/table-engines/special...
Horizontal scalability and compression are also unbeatable from what I've seen, to name a few.
There's a hefty price tag, however: ClickHouse is quite ops heavy and its observability has a seriously steep learning curve. Only go for ClickHouse in production if you really know what you're doing :)
> Ubers Clickhouse as a Log Storage thing
We built hosted ClickHouse-based logging as a service https://logtail.com, just launched with Show HN last week.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder, happy to answer any questions
One thing you can do is to properly configure your monitoring software.
1. Pick the right alert sensitivity + notification channel: If your app is well-built and never goes down, 30 second checks and getting alerted after the very first failed request works well. However, if another legacy app is unreliable and often goes down for ~5 minutes when making DB backups, configure your monitoring so that you only get alerted when the legacy service goes down for at least 10 minutes.
2. Get phone calls for high urgent alerts (e.g. homepage is down)
3. Push notification/Slack message for low urgency alerts (e.g. background processing queue has too many tasks enqueued). If you're at a dinner with friends and you get a low-urgency alert you can just ignore it.
4. Don't take it too seriously! Odds are it's not a life/death situation when your app goes down. Downtime happens to everyone!
5. Pick a reliable uptime monitoring provider so that you never get a false incident at 4am in the morning (shameless plug! :)