yevpats
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Comment · 1 year ago
Nice! I think this space is growing. There are a few others Im aware off in the space worth checking out: https://julius.ai/, https://cipher42.ai (I've built the early version of this).
Comment · 1 year ago
complementary hitler uses docker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivpCKEiQOQ . but yeah I think infrastructure is hard but at the end it's just a tool for a job, you can use terraform, cdk, pulumi, yoke - the cycle of X for Infrastructure is bad continues :)
Comment · 2 years ago
This is why we built CloudQuery (https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery) an open source high performance ELT framework powered by Apache Arrow (framework is open source, our connectors closed source). You can run local pipeline and write plugins (extractors) in Go, Python, Javascript and any other language and save data to any destination (files, SQLite, DuckDB, PostgreSQL, ...)
(Founder here)
Comment · 2 years ago
Check out CloudQuery - Arrow powered ELT framework (Author here :) )
Comment · 2 years ago
I wish you all the best but unfortunately I think you will find out that this business model doesn't work and if you give something for free most companies won't pay for it even if they have the money as it doesn't even worth to go through procurement if it is free. You will have to lock some features in an open core way or other way to paywall companies to pay-up.
Hope Im wrong but I think in the last few years all companies realised that FOSS is not a business model.
Comment · 2 years ago
Congrats! What is the business model? Also, I see that the license is permissive which is great but how do you protect yourself from other companies hosting your solution and competing your cloud offering?
Comment · 2 years ago
Exactly. open source and free tiers in b2b are dead business models for the most part in the post ZIRP Era.
planetscale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618815
Comment · 2 years ago
Here is a free tip to fix terraform business model (no MBA required):
- Terraform is one of the most valuable tools for IaC - it's all free and it shouldn't - it is not a consumer product, it is not running ads and 99% of the users are business users with money.
- Keep Terraform SDK free and open source, close source plugins, charge per resource.
- Invest much more into Core and plugins.
all forks are doomed with the same destiny, business model is not sustainable with negative margin - as long as you have such a generous free tier and storage can run on S3 the price you can ask for a managed version is incredibly low.
You welcome :)
Comment · 2 years ago
Firstly, congrats :) (Generalized) ingestion is a very hard problem because any abstraction that you come up with will always some limitations where you might need to fallback to writing code and have full access to the 3rd party APIs. But definitely in some cases generalized ingestion is much better then re-writing the same ingestion piece especially for complex connectors. Take a look at CloudQuery (https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery) open source high performance ELT framework powered by Apache Arrow (so you can write plugins in any language). (Maintainer here)