Co-founder of Quickwit here. Seeing our acquisition by Datadog on the HN front page feels like a truly full-circle moment.
HN has been interwoven with Quickwit's journey from the very beginning. Looking back, it's striking to see how our progress is literally chronicled in our HN front-page posts:
- Searching the web for under $1000/month [0]
- A Rust optimization story [1]
- Decentralized cluster membership in Rust [2]
- Filtering a vector with SIMD instructions (AVX-2 and AVX-512) [3]
- Efficient indexing with Quickwit Rust actor framework [4]
- A compressed indexable bitset [5]
- Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog [6]
- Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale [7]
- Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit [9]
- Datadog acquires Quickwit [10]
Each of these front-page appearances was a milestone for us. We put our hearts into writing those engineering articles, hoping to contribute something valuable to our community.
I'm convinced HN played a key role in Quickwit's success by providing visibility, positive feedback, critical comments, and leads that contacted us directly after a front-page post. This community's authenticity and passion for technology are unparalleled. And we're incredibly grateful for this.
HN has been interwoven with Quickwit's journey from the very beginning. Looking back, it's striking to see how our progress is literally chronicled in our HN front-page posts:
- Searching the web for under $1000/month [0]
- A Rust optimization story [1]
- Decentralized cluster membership in Rust [2]
- Filtering a vector with SIMD instructions (AVX-2 and AVX-512) [3]
- Efficient indexing with Quickwit Rust actor framework [4]
- A compressed indexable bitset [5]
- Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog [6]
- Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale [7]
- Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene [8]
- Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit [9]
- Datadog acquires Quickwit [10]
Each of these front-page appearances was a milestone for us. We put our hearts into writing those engineering articles, hoping to contribute something valuable to our community.
I'm convinced HN played a key role in Quickwit's success by providing visibility, positive feedback, critical comments, and leads that contacted us directly after a front-page post. This community's authenticity and passion for technology are unparalleled. And we're incredibly grateful for this.
Thank you all :)
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074481
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28955461
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190586
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32674040
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35785421
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519467
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902042
[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39756367
[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492834
[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935701
[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42648043