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tbhon Some months and hard work later, Metricfire announces pricing and GA

You just listed all the qualities we're going for - thanks! :D

Let us know if you need anything!

tbhon Some months and hard work later, Metricfire announces pricing and GA

Thanks for your comments and support, Frank!

tbhon Some months and hard work later, Metricfire announces pricing and GA

No plans for iOS support yet, we're focusing on backend platforms for now.

We're going to put some energy into GAE support over the next few days. Thanks for your comments, we appreciate the interest!

(Our backend systems scoff at >1M events/day - we already handle ~60M/day and we've only just launched...)

tbhon Aggregating events in Graphite over time

Perhaps "throw away" is the wrong phrasing. The aggregates are always averages, no absolute counts. After a rollup, the maximum of some value will no longer be the maximum - it'll be the average of a bunch of maximums. There's no type information with which one can maintain this, and no observation/sum counting. For 'data whore' people like you and I, this should matter. :) (or at least, it does to me)

The article seems to be about trying to get an approximation of observation count data out of Graphite, which doesn't really store that.

tbhon Aggregating events in Graphite over time

For exactly this reason, Metricfire keeps different aggregate views of the data. Observations is one view. Graphite throws too much away, leading to this sort of, admittedly pretty clever, hacking about with multiple functions.

tbhon Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per minute

Apologies for the way, way off topic post, but we'll be announcing pricing soon. Hopefully in a couple of days, and we'll be sure to 'tell HN' when we do. It's likely to be between $30/month and $200/month depending on volume.

Yeah, shameless linkbait. Sorry. :)

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German text. Sorry, couldn't fit that into the title. See an example of this working in the footer here: http://www.gpgtools.org/gpgmail/index.html

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tbhon My Android app (1.6M dloads, 4.5 rating) was suspended from Market

(I'm a previous APNdroid user)

Putting ads in the notification area is remarkably antisocial. This is not what the notification area is for. It's selfish, violates the user's trust, and quite rightly causes the red mist of rage to descend.

It may sound harsh, but your app deserved to be removed for this.