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Is AWS the meteor that kills OSS companies?

Is AWS the meteor that kills OSS companies?

Elastic changed the license for Elasticsearch from Apache 2.0 to SSPL [https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change]. They are following the lead from other similar companies like MongoDB [https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-now-released-under-the-server-side-public-license] , Confluent [https://www.confluent.io/blog/license-changes-confluent-platform/], Cockroach Labs [https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/

Why I dislike Elastic's license change

Why I dislike Elastic's license change

Elastic changed the Elasticsearch license from Apache 2.0 to SSPL [https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change]. I am not a fan of the decision. This comes from my personal experience with OSS and I do not like the precedent that it sets for OSS. But I think it makes

Engineering should talk to sales (A story of Grafana Labs)

Engineering should talk to sales (A story of Grafana Labs)

That title is a little extreme and not at all what a typical engineer wants to hear, but bear with me a little. At Grafana Labs, engineering and sales work very closely together and we're pretty sure its one of our super powers. Raj, our CEO, even talked about how

Yes, we're hiring.

Yes, we're hiring.

So we're constantly hiring and growing across the company but also in my team. My team works on the OSS cortexmetrics.io [https://cortexmetrics.io/] timeseries database and runs the hosted Prometheus service on GrafanaCloud [https://grafana.com/products/cloud/]. On most days whenever I come across a cool idea

Tempo: A game of trade-offs

Tempo: A game of trade-offs

About 2 years ago, I wrote a long post [https://grafana.com/blog/2018/12/12/loki-prometheus-inspired-open-source-logging-for-cloud-natives/] [https://grafana.com/blog/2018/12/12/loki-prometheus-inspired-open-source-logging-for-cloud-natives/] about why we built Loki [https://grafana.com/oss/loki/] and the tradeoffs we made. Now, we've just launched Tempo [https://grafana.com/oss/grafana-tempo/

Yoloriding, Why I ride

Yoloriding, Why I ride

It's more than exercise So my mom is always frustrated that I take it far too seriously and push myself too hard. She says, "It should be exercise, you should do it for an hour, 90mins max, not more than that". But for me, cycling is more than exercise. Cycling

Yoloriding, the story

Yoloriding, the story

So I like to bike. I like it a lot. According to my parents, I do it waaaay too much, but to be honest I don't do it enough! I'm going to recount a few things about my journey in this post. I expect it to be long, just like

Friends, lets slow down and take breaks

Friends, lets slow down and take breaks

I am writing this post for my Indian friends in particular, but this is applicable for anyone, you just might relate to it less. I rage tweeted earlier in the week when I found out one of my closest friends was badly burnt out. This was because of largely systemic

Thoughts on COSS companies

Thoughts on COSS companies

So I have been doing open-source for a little while now. I've actually learnt how to code by contributing to an open-source e-commerce solution [https://github.com/reactioncommerce/reaction]. Later I started contributing to Prometheus [https://prometheus.io] while in college and my contributions snagged me an internship at CoreOS

My first re-org

My first re-org

So recently, at Grafana Labs [http://grafana.com/], we had a re-org of the R&D department! People might look at that negatively but I think its a great idea and very well executed. It was done to fix structural problems and to set us up for the next phase

Deliver bad news early

Deliver bad news early

I've been reading up on company culture and reflecting on the culture I've been seeing at Grafana Labs. I share one of the anecdotes which encouraged me to set expectations and share feedback and ground realities early.

Simpletime: Update #1

Simpletime: Update #1

Quick update, got a basic dashboard working and now going to start working on the webapp.

Simpletime

Building a simple time-tracking solution.

The path to the endgame

The path to the endgame

Hi everyone, I am going to try to document what I envision my future as. And also what I see as the potential path to getting there. Context I am a 23 Software Engineer working at Grafana Labs [https://grafana.com/]. I started out as a maintainer for Prometheus [https: