Free Post Is AWS the meteor that kills OSS companies? Elastic changed the license for Elasticsearch from Apache 2.0 to SSPL. They are following the lead from other similar companies like MongoDB, Confluent, Cockroach Labs, Redis Labs, Timescale and
Free Post Why I dislike Elastic's license change Elastic changed the Elasticsearch license from Apache 2.0 to SSPL. I am not a fan of the decision. This comes from my personal experience with OSS and I do
Free Post 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
Free Post culture 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 timeseries database and runs the hosted Prometheus service
Free Post Tempo: A game of trade-offs About 2 years ago, I wrote a long post about why we built Loki and the tradeoffs we made. Now, we've just launched Tempo, our tracing store, which I think
Free Post yoloriding Yoloriding, Why I ride It's more than exerciseSo 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
Free Post yoloriding 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
Free Post 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
Free Post 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. Later I started contributing to Prometheus
Free Post My first re-org So recently, at Grafana Labs, 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
Free Post culture 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.
Free Post simpletime Simpletime: Update #1 Quick update, got a basic dashboard working and now going to start working on the webapp.
Free Post 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. ContextI am a