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Hi there, Right now Uptrace seems to be supporting only Clickhouse sink only. Is there any future roadmap to support other Exporters supported on OpenTelemetry ?

Touches a chord this post.Systems like Kubernetes, Kafka are inherently complicated. My previous company got baremetal from AWS and installed k8s cluster on them. No offense to who architected it, we had multi country infra and made sense to take care of cost advantages on lower cloud costs using alternate providers

We got a lot of critical infra running on them and then slowly there was tech-debt that would start accumulating. Clusters have to get updated , older DNS versions in k8s are slow, networking (Older Weave versions was bursting through the seams when the traffic exploded with many applications onboarded). SRE teams get overwhelmed, constant requests for adding PVC (Kafka & C* was on k8s) took a toll. Sanity prevailed in the end, there was decision to move to hosted PaaS infra, though I no longer work there, I just reminisced what we were going through.

Though a "cloud-independent" solution will save pennies, it will definitely drown dollars in personnel costs and the uptime/SLA

History repeats itself, because we don't learn from our mistakes (us or others)

Welcome to Utopia (always a dream, every a myth)

Out of curiosity, Did you mean 20k people making more than 200k. The overall strength is 220k at MS isn't it

both the comments are generalizations :), AIX development and support has been happening from IBM Labs India for a long time (Had some former colleagues who were into it) & if anything platforms like AIX are legacy Unix flavors that will probably not get a lot of people who'd be excited about that.

The government has the ultimate say!, what happens if they order all ISP's to stop traffic to BTC trading sites (or even shutdown internet if it wills) Solutions like the great firewall exists that constantly "learn" and will lock you out immaterial if the government decides so.So the argument that BTC / Crypto will take me to the moon (SafeMoon) is wishful thinking

The TATA group has diverse businesses in India from Salt to Heavy industries & atleast the new cars that they produce have reputation of better quality & service than a lot of other brands. You are probably talking about something extremely sweepingly generalistic and that too with no real points (atleast on this). There are lot of concerns of recent about MAC OS releases (discussions on HN on how long term IOS users were unhappy with the buggy OS's released)

That is a very compassionate comment.Thank you!. It is such a sad thing to make sweeping generalizations, I know of many ex employees of these organizations in FAANG, startups. Agreed that the ratio of great technical talent may be small, these companies have 300k employees, a vast majority is maintaining a legacy application that is keeping a business alive somewhere or processing someone's health insurance claim or something important thereof. You will find some really smart people doing products like Finacle, a well adopted core-banking software. What was done was bad and than talking of bad practices (so many exposed buckets in AWS, miners using compromised EC2 instances from github repos) a vast majority of the discussion seems to be sweeping generalizations of how every single person employed in these companies are!

In god we trust, Others bring data - Deming.

Unless you are living under a rock, here are some dashboards you will find interesting

https://cea.nic.in/dashboard/?lang=en https://npp.gov.in/dashBoard/cp-map-dashboard

and water

https://ejalshakti.gov.in/jjmreport/JJMIndia.aspx

No place is perfect unless you are living in Utopian LaLa land or one has drunk too much KoolAid. There are problems which are being addressed by state / central governments.

In my home state of Kerala, there is plenty of Water and decent Hydel plants for power.So even the argument that you place is only tangentially accurate.

Source ?

Not sure I get it. May be it is cultural, but the flamewars after that was borderline spam and personal. Here was someone who was talking of 8 years of their work and the approval for next stage trials showing promise and we had "unrelated" (for lack of a better word) discussion and comments.

General question, There is so much toxicity in Twitter (even on Linkedin) and very little sane conversation (May be not just twitter, many social networks in general). For example recently saw someone post with POTUS on some ground breaking work on Immunotherapy for cancer (this was their 8 year research), replies and comments were outright bad to vulgar (did he smell your hair! went one). Mind you this was not a 4th grader but senior staff, well educated MBA's. Has social media become a frustration venting outlet? Pretty sure one would come out of the browsing experience exhausted! Who would use this for 8 USD a month! P.S. not on any social network except for messaging apps (once a day with notifications off)

From my prior experience in a big car company. A lot of us are getting better as well, remember that there is baggage accumulated over the years. Like most things, this takes time. This bureaucracy be shed overnight, it is a painful metamorphosis. I know of systems of record where developers are close to retirement, devices which are fabricated by vendors. Every CIO change swings between "we are a car company, outsource" vs "software is eating the world, insource". Sure enough things are changing for the better.

AFAI recall, this was not a replacement for R-PI or similar desktop computing (IT systems). With constant fear of backdoor(s) in processors exploited by hackers and rogue state actors, there was genuine need for design / fabrication of processors for critical infrastructure (power systems, satellites/space and OT systems of importance (Not IT).) Design philosophy : https://youtu.be/4EcqJ-bucV4?t=1476

Very nicely done Michael. So happy for your success. More power to you , lots of <3 from India

Sadly it is pretty much the story of the world with a few rare exceptions. Far right movements ethnic/religion/political have engulfed almost every place , amplified by social media and re-amplified by media. Note that Hindus get shot in their homes in Indian state of Kashmir too , the latest being 1 day ago.This eye for an eye will take anyone anywhere.

This is sometimes hot and cold sometimes depending on C.I/T/D.O decisions. I used to work for enterprises that said software is eating the world and revenue , insourcing and IP differentiation. Come next CXO cycle , we are a manufacturing company / Fintech / Insurer and IT is left to the specialists (and sell off entire arms or rebadge).

Aside , no two warehouses may be alike (fragmentation) + the fact that specialized products that keep adding new features find it hard in the data lineage space / governance space. I doubt if this steam will keep up unless there is a significant revenue (and that will be a challenge for anyone who would make a decision on a SaaS product)

Don't be evil may be ?

Sweeping generalizations ?

The answer is not boolean , it depends. Sure there are lot of database migrations that happen to the cloud and fancy NoSQL datastores , but there are always so many data islands , warehouses that hold up data in traditional enterprise databases.

And all the move to cloud is not straight too , there are lift and shifts where the same DB runs on another machine. There are lot of "microservices" that data from these that need housekeeping that will go on anyway.

How about NoSQL DBA's ? We moved a lot of data to a NoSQL datastore (HBASE) and added Phoenix on top of it (SQL flavour). Sure enough there were app queries that did need a relook at! , newer query patterns emerged , secondary indices , data re-indexing , adding more RegionServers , Splitting regions , tuning guideposts, changing the GC parameters for the stop the world GC's was all needed. While a lot of these are taken care in PaaS , not every application runs on CosmosDB , DynamoDB or the like. There is always a niche and it is here to stay!

What i understand is a slight difference. It is not about stop doing but in understanding it is getting "done through you"

First page on HN :) well .. well.. Timeless perspective. Got an introduction first by reading "A search in Secret India" by Paul Brunton and then on talks on Youtube (Voice of Rishis , Robert and Sarvapriyananda) , changed me in so many different ways for the better.

I wish the Charan all the best. Can't help but think this resonates so well with me may be because I sailed the same boat for 2 years now. Employers need to manage burnout , some of the smartest guys got so severely burnt out the last 2 years (may be stay at home thing) . To make it worse there was a constant imposter syndrome question that this was purely my productivity problem and did not speak to anyone about it. Now that i met a few in the office (like the real one , not home office) looks like a lot of them are on this roller coaster

Yeah , tournaments have been cancelled https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/pakistan-under-13-and-und...

Come from the same region as these folks. There is no correlation to religion in a lot of this. I studied in Govt. institutions where no one cared about a lot of religion , it was just race to the top.

I understand there is a lot more polarity now , trust me this does not have a thing!. The most inspirational engineer all of us looked to was Dr. APJ. Peer groups matter

A case was filed , and was dismissed in the state i am in https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/kerala-high-c...

Is the same case for state schemes as well. Regional non centre party CM's pictures are everywhere from Ration cards , bags , televisions , electricity cards etc. Nothing new.

By the way , I loved the press conference (https://youtu.be/NaMUQQtlrNA?t=296) of the minister (seems well informed atleast from the way he spoke - may be good secretaries , still)

A lot of testing centers / labs such as Lister or Thyrocare can do in person sample collections, such as this one below are available.

Its quite easy to get a test done at home. (Mentioned of lister metropolis because they had come home for some other sample collection and mentioned of this) . You can check aggregator apps as well that provide this list.

https://www.metropolisindia.com/parameter/trichy/covid-19-rt...

The negatives of being on being the backend engineer ( by backend I am assuming it means gathering and santizing data as well I may add )

+ 60% work is straight forward , he 40% with respect to data cleansing (especially big-data flows) is painful. Be it other systems that feed data or field devices that produce data , there is so much to handle + A new aggregate report may throw existing designs to the trenches + Doing a wild chase for 1 abhorrent row of data and painfully digging that up. I love the slickness for UI where you make a fix and refresh to see what happens + Lot of plumbing , the frontend uses a standard transport. The Backend API may be anything between Sockets to Webscrapers whose uptimes are always under the pump

Kerala as well , not sure if they are trumping wealth here though